Over on the Preseem blog I posted a bit of fiber data analysis comparing signal strength vs fiber length for Calix, Adtran and Ubiquiti.

We have a lot of data, just need more time to explore it.

https://preseem.com/2024/09/ont-receive-power-fiber-length

BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, or SRv6?

This is roughly what we’ve been doing with some internal Rust work as well.

https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/sync-core-async-shell

https://quic.video/blog/never-use-datagrams

https://quic.video/blog/quic-powers

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-carbon-pricing-major-meta.html

This is a good article on TCP_NODELAY. The associated HN thread also has some interesting comments.

For another discussion of this topic, see the recent Oxide and Friends episode, also available in podcast form.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/aim-database-for-internet-quality

Worth the read

https://cacm.acm.org/research/talking-about-large-language-models/

The AT Protocol that powers BlueSky (distributed Twitter) is interesting.

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/how-does-bluesky-work

Especially the ability to use domain names as identifiers and the ability to move between servers while maintaining that identifier.

https://bsky.app/profile/coverfire.com

I’m not sure I have need for micro-blogging any more but perhaps a non-centralized version could be better.