Anchor Web Hosting Blog » delivery http://www.anchor.com.au/blog A view into the Anchor Engineroom Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:51:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 sock.receive() http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2009/01/sockreceive/ http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2009/01/sockreceive/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:56:49 +0000 Barney Desmond http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/?p=203 Well, I’m impressed. My socks arrived, and just in time for my trip overseas, where I fully expect to deal with lots of snow. Delivery took one week, though one might even argue they’re a bit too serious about expediency. One pair arrived yesterday in its own box, followed by three more individual packages today.

Suddenly, socks! Thousands of them!

Suddenly, socks! Thousands of them!

I see they’ve embraced a package-based model for their postal architecture. Not a bad move, but you have to consider the risks, like out-of-order arrival (not a big problem for socks), lossage (high retransmission cost), jitter (particularly important for sockscription customers), etc. Latency rocks, though!

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