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ryanlitalien | 2 years ago

Hi, why the switch? Purely cost? Or admin overhead?

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maccard|2 years ago

Yes, to both. P4 itself is solid, but it's a very chatty protocol and is very latency sensitive. Running a master in the us, with clients in europe is painful for everyone involved. Replicas and edge servers come with other tradeoffs too.

As a developer, doing things like "I only want this subtree of the stream" is hard. Virtual streams exist, but they have a (non-negligible) overhead on the server. It has some quirks due to it being 30 years old which make it... interesting, to work with sometimes.

Arelius|2 years ago

Agreed. It's also expensive, and support has been lacking. We'd much prefer something we could maintain and fix ourselves.

ryanlitalien|2 years ago

Lightweight branching is coming "soon" and will help this exact issue. Contact me for more info.