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Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger
From: Michael.Dillon () radianz com
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:47:02 +0100
What if more than a million Tiger Safaris were on the loose. Oh boy!
While
an addition 48 gigabytes of traffic a day or 1.4 terabyte a month is not that much for large sites, but it will add up.
An we were all worried about the impact of Internet TV... ;-)
How about randomizing the whole RSS polling process? Instead of pulling
down
RSS feeds every hour, let the feeds download randomly. Okay that will
help
distribute the loads on the servers more evenly, but that still doesn¹t resolve the issue of inefficient use of network resources, especially
for
those who pay for those kind of things. Suggestions?
How about synchronising all RSS feeds using NTP-synchronized clocks so that every RSS client in the world polls for updates at exactly and precisely the same instant, every 5 minutes. Sound crazy? Let me introduce you to a little-known technology known as IP multicast. Think about it... ;-) --Michael Dillon P.S. My company happens to carry large amounts of RSS-like data using IP-multicast. You may have heard of this RSS-like system invented back in the 1870's under the name of "ticker tape". Nowadays NYSE, NASDAQ and other markets still distribute tick data but it is done using multicast. Everything old is new again.
Current thread:
- Internet impact of Apple Tiger Irwin Lazar (Apr 29)
- Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger Martin Hepworth (Apr 29)
- Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger Irwin Lazar (Apr 29)
- Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger Michael . Dillon (Apr 29)
- Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger Florian Weimer (Apr 29)
- Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 29)
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- RE: Internet impact of Apple Tiger Mark Segal (Apr 29)
- Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger Martin Hepworth (Apr 29)