I must create a System, or be enslav’d by another Man’s; I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create.| systemsapproach.substack.com
*Some Restrictions May Apply. It should come as no surprise that designing/implementing Private 5G is not exactly the same as deploying/operating Private 5G, and since we wanted our forthcoming book to help readers with the latter, we decided to take the system we had built out for a test drive.| systemsapproach.substack.com
We have been writing about the possibilities for a request/response transport paradigm (as an alternative to TCP's reliable byte stream) since the 1990s, and yet we seem to keep finding new angles to approach the problem. We’re not sure yet if there is a whole book in this topic, but we certainly have enough material for this week’s newsletter and probably more to come.| systemsapproach.substack.com
We’ve written previously about the fact that the Internet seems to be missing a standard protocol for the request/response paradigm, with repeated attempts to force-fit TCP leading to inevitable mismatches. Sometimes we feel that we are the only people who think this way, with our networking| systemsapproach.substack.com
About two weeks ago, we joined the masses of people leaving Twitter for Mastodon. The fact that Mastodon, building on some earlier ideas for federated social networking, is a decentralized approach, has renewed our interest in, and hope for, the decentralization of the Internet.| systemsapproach.substack.com
“It has been said that the principal function of an operating system is to define a number of different names for the same object, so that it can busy itself keeping track of the relationship between all of the different names.” – David Clark, RFC 814| systemsapproach.substack.com
The Systems Approach has been the guiding principle for how we write, teach, and design systems for almost 30 years, and of course we get asked to define “Systems Approach” quite often.| systemsapproach.substack.com
The publication of a new, definitive specification for TCP (RFC 9293) is enough of a big deal in our world that we couldn’t resist a second post on the topic.| systemsapproach.substack.com