waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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The “ping crisis”

October 4th, 2005

I wrote a little bit about the weblog “ping crisis” over on the FeedTree blog:

This, as it turns out, is a great advertisement for FeedTree, which uses decentralized multicast to go way beyond pings. Instead of just communicating a single bit (???I’ve updated!???), we distribute the new data as well (???I’ve updated, and here’s what I wrote!???), saving each subscriber another trip to the publisher to get the updated content.

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