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It's TCP vs. RPC All Over Again
We’ve written previously about the fact that the Internet seems to be missing a standard protocol for the request/response paradigm, with repeated…
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Larry Peterson
QUIC Is Not a TCP Replacement
The publication of a new, definitive specification for TCP (RFC 9293) is enough of a big deal in our world that we couldn’t resist a second post on the…
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Bruce Davie
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Was MPLS Traffic Engineering Worthwhile?
One of the topics we keep coming back to at Systems Approach is “when should a feature be made part of a platform”. This question is at the heart of…
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Bruce Davie
RPC vs TCP (Redux)
We have been writing about the possibilities for a request/response transport paradigm (as an alternative to TCP's reliable byte stream) since the…
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Larry Peterson
Was MPLS Necessary?
One of the objectives of the original “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” book was to treat networking not as a series of artifacts that are handed…
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Bruce Davie
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The Future of P4, Revisited
The P4 Workshop was a couple weeks ago, and as General Chair, I went into it with a fair amount of trepidation. My concern was that Intel’s announcement…
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Larry Peterson
Network Virtualization Revisited
The power of illusions created in software
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Bruce Davie
Escape from Big Publishing
How Open Source provided the path to achieve our publishing goals
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Bruce Davie
How Congestion Control Saved the Internet
Distributed resource management for the win
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Bruce Davie
Why APIs Matter
APIs (application programming interfaces) are no longer just a technical detail of interest to computer scientists.
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Bruce Davie
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Looking inside Large Language Models
We like to think we can give our readers a bit of perspective on the field when there is no shortage of hyperbole and strong opinions. We’re not…
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Bruce Davie
60 Years of Networking
Next week I am heading to Edinburgh University to give a lecture as part of the events celebrating 60 years of Computer Science and Artificial…
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Bruce Davie
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