My blog post last month on the rapid growth of Google generated a bit of discussion around Google and its competitors. In particular, this Wired article (“Google’s Traffic Is Giant”) suggests Google’s infrastructure should “frighten the world’s current ISPs” and content distributors (i.e. CDNs like Akamai and Limelight). Going even further, a panicked “EatMoreBeef” Wired [...]
Since we’ve written about Google’s multiple past outages (e.g., the GoogleLapes of May 2009 and the more recent Google Blip), it seems only fair to quickly cover Facebook’s problems last Friday. The below graph shows coarse grain Facebook (ASN 32934) traffic statistics from 60 randomly selected ISPs around the world. While most press / blog [...]
This year I again had the pleasure of serving on the LEET program committee, which let me view some excellent research from people around the world. This year’s submissions were very high quality, and this year’s LEET workshop looks to be a very valuable day for researchers in the field. Join us at the 3rd [...]