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by mlhpdx 3 days ago
Seems like we’re barking up the same tree:

https://github.com/proxylity/raptor

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> Perhaps most importantly, it does so using a tiny fraction of the CPU time, saving energy and keeping our datacenters (and planet) a little cooler.

But then:

> A decoder backend on AWS (SQS + Lambda + DynamoDB + S3) reassembles objects from incoming encoded packets delivered via Proxylity UDP Gateway.

:( those microservice invocation will burn up the DC more.

The real sell looks like offloading s3 upload latency.

After having used it a while I tend to agree — the snappy send time is such a nice change.

Maybe at some point S3 will have a native implementation of something like this.