Forty years in, a protocol that's over the hill and under the gun, at least for the majors
One of the most entrenched standards of the last forty years, the Transmission Control Protocol , might be seeing the end of the line, at least for applications in some of the world's largest datacenters.
The datacenter of today is, of course, wildly different. Now, we're dealing with hundreds of machines in close proximity, communicating at short time intervals. TCP was designed for a world of millisecond packet delivery from one end of the network to another, but in a datacenter this job is done in a microsecond.
It's not like the realization of TCP's limitations is anything new. There has been progress to bust through some of the biggest problems, including in congestion control to solve the problem of machines sending to the same target at the same time, causing a backup through the network. But these are incremental tweaks to something that is inherently not suitable, especially for the largest datacenter applications .
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