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Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture

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The official Android testing framework from Google is also named Espresso. Are we running into a classic hard computer science problem?

Off-by-one errors?

I'm sure he means something to do with caches; I had it on the tip of my tongue a moment ago, but the doorbell rang.

Re: Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture

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The essence of what Espresso is begins towards the end of the post:

Espresso delivers two key pieces of innovation. First, it allows us to dynamically choose from where to serve individual users based on measurements of how end-to-end network connections are performing in real time.

Second, we separate the logic and control of traffic management from the confines of individual router “boxes.”

Re: Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture

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I think with platforms like this it is now safe to say that the systems and services Google is deploying are no longer in the same category as classical networked systems. This is as foreign a concept from traditional networking and the seven layer OSI model as non von Neumann computing is from von neumann computing

Re: Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture

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The official Android testing framework from Google is also named Espresso. Are we running into a classic hard computer science problem?

Off-by-one errors?

Not if they developed using Espresso CSS editor that just had v3 released on March 30th.
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