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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by jeroenhd on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:20PM (#45764130)
It's written by someone trying to sell specialized cloud services targeted towards UDP based protocols.

Talking up UDP like it's something special is part of the business strategy.

And, to be fair, a lot of TCP-based or even HTTP-based application protocols could probably have been UDP without any trouble.

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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by klysm on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:28AM (#45771288)
UDP introduces trouble and the question is whether that’s worth it. It usually isn’t
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