South Bay Systems Meetup: Replace TCP in the Datacenter
Welcome to our first South Bay Systems meetup! We're excited to have John Ousterhout, professor of computer science at Stanford University, present It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter. Our first meeting is generously hosted at YugabyteDB.
Talk Abstract
Although TCP is a tremendously successful transport protocol that has survived 40 years of dramatic technology changes, virtually every aspect of its design is wrong for the datacenter. This talk will discuss the problems with TCP, ranging from its use of connections and streams to its mechanisms for reliable delivery and congestion control. If we are to make significant headway against the "datacenter tax" we must move most datacenter traffic to a new and fundamentally different protocol. I will then discuss how the Homa transport protocol solves all of the problems of TCP and suggest a migration strategy for bringing Homa into widespread usage.
Agenda
6:00 PM: Doors open, food and socializing
6:30 PM — 7:30 PM: Talk
7:30 —: Community socializing!
Food and beverages will be provided, courtesy of our hosts, YugabyteDB.