Part of migrating applications from on-premises hosting to cloud hosting (AWS, Azure, etc) involves re-evaluating how users access their data. A recent migration involved users running Windows 10 accessing a Windows file share using the SMB protocol. Since SMB isn’t safe to run directly over the Internet (it’s usually not encrypted and it has a … Continue reading Performance Testing WebDAV Clients
Month: March 2019
The Sad Story of TCP Fast Open
If there’s a way to make something fast, you’ve got my attention. Especially when there’s a way to make a lot of things fast with a simple change – and that’s what TCP Fast Open (TFO) promises to do. TFO (RFC 7413) started out in 2011 as a way to eliminate one of the round … Continue reading The Sad Story of TCP Fast Open