Moving past TCP in the data center, part 1
Moving past TCP in the data center, part 1
Posted Nov 3, 2022 8:20 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Moving past TCP in the data center, part 1 by jenro
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> The nice thing about a TCP session is: as long as the session stays connected and error free it doesn't matter, if I retrieve 100 bytes or 100,000 bytes or 100,000,000 bytes, TCP guarantees, that I get all the data in the correct order.
This isn't such a great advantage for many datacenter applications. You have to design services very differently if they need to handle 1K or 100M of data.
In fact, ability to hide this leads to bad designs.