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Switching to UDP #1

Closed nikolaevra closed 6 years ago

nikolaevra commented 6 years ago

UDP Problems:

minimizing packet loss
being able to recover lost packets
according to most questions asked about reliability, it would be easier and faster to just use TCP which is already optimized
simple solution would be to number each packet being sent, if the receiver misses a number, resend that packet
Alternative:
- QUIC
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
- not much support yet but has lower latency than TCP and also provides reliability
- built on top of UDP by Google

nikolaevra commented 6 years ago

➤ Ruslan commented:

QUIC sounds really interesting. Would be cool to attempt writing a basic server that sends QUIC packets. After further reading i think its going to be very hard to do that, maybe should just stick with UDP

nikolaevra commented 6 years ago

➤ Ruslan commented:

Right now, the only webserver that can get you QUIC is https://github.com/mholt/caddy/wiki/QUIC

nikolaevra commented 6 years ago

➤ Deep commented:

What would the front end be written in if we switch to UDP?

nikolaevra commented 6 years ago

➤ Edwin Zhang commented:

@dhillondeep What are you guys using right now?