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Which ones? According to https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en pixel 5a is getting eol this month, with the next security update dropping for pixel 6 starting …

Who says you have to purchase a service with dollars?

I mean they did say almost no breaking changes, depending how much has changed in the language, a small handful of breaking changes in niche use cases may be considered almost none…

I experienced this just last month! Except, I didn't know it at the moment. I was participating in a design review while wfh on meet. We were having some good discussions, which I …

Can you please link to the incident where the "full region" was down for weeks?

This is because of the way tcp congestion control works. In order to achieve higher speeds, tcp has a "window" that grows, essentially the amount of data in flight, that has not ye…

I don't think that is true. MKBHD just came out with a video demonstrating using a video wall that updated in sync with the camera frame rate. Allowing two cameras to see different…

For gRPC, the protobuf is the API specification, a service definition with endpoints, what requests to those endpoints should look like and what responses look like. Of course, the…

I work at Google so am perhaps biased, but that article is from 2019 and cloud is now a 20B/yr business and growing. Why does it keep coming up?

Usually a connection is defined by what's called a 5-tuple. Source up, source port, dest up, dest port, protocol (e.g. tcp or udp)

Indeed, it's a publicly documented feature: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en#:~:text... .

I think down leveling is quite common, especially at higher levels as the expectations grow quite a bit between senior and staff. Depending on the position, actually filling it wit…

Seems like there are quite a few options that show up pretty quickly when searching for multipath udp e.g: https://github.com/angt/glorytun Would that work for you?

I was a simple customer since before the BBVA acquisition, but once I heard that they were shutting down the main service I moved everything over to a cash reserve account in bette…

Generally RAM doesn't burn out, so I don't think that will be the reason. My guess it will be around capacity, though if the LEO ISP market has multiple players all covering the sa…

DNS doesn't really redirect, but DNS is the answer. What you're talking about is split horizon, this is most common when you have an authoritative server for say a corporation, but…

Except, sometimes a data center goes down and no one notices. So if a data center goes down, and no user around notices, is it really down?

Yes.

For the most part, other services take care of network resources. Borg might have some host level network limits, but I haven't seen them used much.

I've asked that my number be unable to be changed to a different sim over the phone. So to change it I need to go into a physical store and present proper ID

Usually grpc connections are left open after a message is sent and received. And since it's based on h2, multiple message streams can be multiplexed over a single connection. That …