Yeah, I think you're late. I've heard repeated stories about google using DHTs internally.
Thanks -greg Quoting David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So I've long been skeptical of the value of the DHT in the real world, often > arguing that -- unless anonymity and privacy are critical requirements -- > central servers are far superior in every single way. > > However, I wonder if the real use for the DHT will be in vast server farms, > as suggested by Amazon's Dynamo project: > > http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html > > I think it starts to make sense there, as we're talking about really > enormous scales were central servers truly do start to break down, where > churn operates on a geological timeframe compared to between clients, where > there are better trust guarantees and fairness is less a problem, etc. > > Is this common knowledge that I'm just late to pick up on? Any thoughts? > > -david > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
