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@bsdphk dear people from Atlassian and salesforce…. READ THIS!

@bsdphk Definitely sympathetic to that article and the problem. Most sites are bloated beyond belief. But aren't some of his suggestions potential (D)DoS traps though?

For example, the trickling traffic, in a scenario where you have many such clients connecting you can quickly exhaust available sockets.

@bsdphk

When I taught "how to make your own web pages" (there was still Geocities!) I suggested putting all the files on a floppy, so that their loading would become slow, to simulate a modem.

@bsdphk

I think bandwidth limitations turn up more often than web-devs seem to realise, and definitely not just for Antarctic stations! I recently tried to work on my laptop while on a local commuter train (near one of the UK's biggest cities) and also noticed low speeds (peaked at a few hundred kbps) and high latency/packet loss. My hunch is that the train Wi-Fi shares some mobile data connection, which means a lot of people piling onto one modest connection at rush hour.

@warrickball @bsdphk Same with the NightJet going halfway across europe. Or when traveling the autobahn > 180km/h, or being in an aircraft above the ocean, or in a train tunnel under the sea.

Fascinating we even have some connectivity in these situations at all!

@bsdphk "Please keep in mind that I wrote the majority of this post ~7 months ago, so it’s likely that the IT landscape has shifted since then." -- bless his heart 😃

Additional points to the blogger for their pejorative use of "artisanal, in-app downloaders".

@bsdphk if developers design things for i2p, the way i2p operates today with speeds of a few kilobytes per second to upto 200kb per second on a good connection then it sound like it would be fine for antarctica. I was thinking about this recently in fact, was wondering whether it ight be worthwhile capping individual connections by default to 28kbps speeds to help keep everyone looking similar.

@sadiedoreen ?

(edit- include original booster @joe_vinegar)

(edit- example 3 is annoying including for those trying to setup a linux distro that does online updates only. very painful and really a massive turnoff)

@bsdphk cpu, network bandwidth and storage. Ultimately include cooling and power. Same as the mainframe days, your cloud and energy costs should be a factor in your architectures and algorithms.