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tux1968

> RPC traffic is expensive and slow, not free, fast, reliable

If i've understood your point, you should have rather said this is what you've learned, not unlearned.

You are correct; I've edited my comment to (hopefully) make it a little clearer. Google RPCs are fast. The RPC trace depth of many requests is >20 in miliseconds. Google RPCs are free - Nobody budgets for intradatacenter traffic. Google RPCs are reliable - Most teams hold themselves to a SLA of 4 9s, as measured by their customers, and many see >5 as the usual state of affairs.

Is it opposite day? You seem to mean <20ms right?

I parsed his comment as "a request that results in 20 nested RPCs completes in a few ms".

I think he means that over 20 remote procedure calls can be made within milliseconds, which is game-changing.

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