akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Thu Jan 23 17:38:33 UTC 2020

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> I think this is a tribute to how we’ve built and upgraded networks for
> capacity and speed.
>

I think it's spot on.

In years past it made more sense to distribute smaller , incremental
patches. More work on the software side, but it was likely a better option
than getting blasted on Twitter because "OMG I WANT TO PLAY AND MY DOWNLOAD
IS TAKING 8 HOURS".

This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If you
build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :)

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:57 AM Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jan 23, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:13:15 +0100, Bryan Holloway said:
> >
> >> Game releases are hardly a new thing, but these last two events seem to
> >> be almost an order of magnitude higher than what we're used to (at least
> >> on our predominantly eyeball network.)
> >>
> >> Any thoughts from the community? We're taking steps to accommodate, but
> >> from a capacity-planning perspective, this seems non-linear to me.
> >
> > Be prepared for an entire new world of hurt this holiday season. Sony
> has already
> > confirmed that PS5 releases will ship on 100Gbyte blu-ray disks.  Which
> means that
> > download sizes will be comparable…
>
> There’s also the “we will stream you all the data things” I keep hearing
> about like the
> Consoles without discs or some other thing I can’t remember the name of.
>
> I think this is a tribute to how we’ve built and upgraded networks for
> capacity and speed.
>
> - Jared
>
>
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