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David P. Reed
Personal blog · deepplum.com/blog-dprsystemsphilosophy
David P. Reed writes Deep Plum Research, a personal blog at deepplum.com about systems and philosophy. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “UDP and Me (2018)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David P. Reed's blog for networking views, including why UDP gives more fine-grained control than TCP and why message-oriented designs often fit applications better than streams.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- UDP and Me (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-22
What Hacker News says?
Yep. More generally the correct reason to prefer UDP over TCP is the fine-grained control you gain. When you want that and have to use TCP, you're in for a deadly fight against the OS and its TCP/IP stack. Datagram is also quite often more fit for applications than streams, because many applications are message oriented. The Websocket protocol acknowledges that even though over TCP. But that's more a bonus point tha…
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on “Prefer Strict Tables in SQLite”Submitted UDP and Me (2010) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted UDP and Me (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted That Sneaky Exponential–Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the Power of Community Building as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to fix rogue social media platforms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to fix rogue social media platforms – David P. Reed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the Internet Is, and Should Continue to Be as a story · 1 points
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