Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

["Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:39:09 -0800, Ahmed Borno said:

> The thread started with bandwidth surges and now power hogging is
> mentioned, I wonder what else might happen as a side effect to a small
> number of console/gaming companies not taking a direct responsibility in
> how they release large updates in a way that is not organized or scheduled
> but is rough and abrupt.

And I'd not expect it to improve - many of the game producers are leaving the
"incremental patch" mode to a "just ship the current image of the whole damned
thing", because for them it's cheaper to just push out a single updated image
than try to build different images for upgrading from different current levels.

After all - it's not like *they* are going to feel the pain of a single 106G upload,
it's somebody else who feels the pain of 5 million downloads of a 106G image refresh.

Economists call this sort of thing an "externality".

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