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		true_religion on Jan 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video] In my experience, having a PoP in Taiwan, means that some data requests from S. Korea, Philippines, and Australia are routed to that. I never know how that works, since Singapore and Tokyo, Japan should be closer---but it still happens.

pyvpx on Jan 9, 2017 [–]

load and network conditions (paths from you to Tokyo are experiencing packet loss for $REASONS, Singapore is overloaded/broken/full, etc).

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