I really think we need a major shift in how we handle static content. This stuff should be near zero-cost by now.
Ideally so cheap that your ISP has a CDN and publishers pay nothing to get them to cache it, it's just included in your internet service. For some people things could even be cached temporarily at the building level.
SSDs are very fast and hardware acceleration exists. Why so we need such massive servers in a data center?
A movie is only 90 minutes. A single disk and some ASICs should be able to serve tens of thousands of people, if you could make dedicated hardware without all the stuff that's irrelevant for streams, just a bunch of cores with DMA going straight into crypto and out a bunch of Ethernet ports.
If we can make a tiny 10 gigabit swith with tons of ports in one rack, why can we not add some sticks of ram and do CDNs in hardware?
Ideally so cheap that your ISP has a CDN and publishers pay nothing to get them to cache it, it's just included in your internet service. For some people things could even be cached temporarily at the building level.
SSDs are very fast and hardware acceleration exists. Why so we need such massive servers in a data center?
A movie is only 90 minutes. A single disk and some ASICs should be able to serve tens of thousands of people, if you could make dedicated hardware without all the stuff that's irrelevant for streams, just a bunch of cores with DMA going straight into crypto and out a bunch of Ethernet ports.
If we can make a tiny 10 gigabit swith with tons of ports in one rack, why can we not add some sticks of ram and do CDNs in hardware?