Another interesting tangent I've been curious in is networked storage.
The algorithms (protocols like AWS SRD and Infiniband RD) [0][1] and hardware (network gears and protocol specific ASICs or FGPAs) used to get to 100gbps and beyond over tech like RoCE, Infiniband+RDMA, Elastic Fabric Adapter are in themselves interesting for a clear reason that these are complex distributed systems in their own right with high availability, super low latency, and considerable throughput.
Other networking tech enables not just reliable storage over network (either block devices like EBS or filesystems like EFS or Lustre) but also things like content delivery at internet scale [2].
The algorithms (protocols like AWS SRD and Infiniband RD) [0][1] and hardware (network gears and protocol specific ASICs or FGPAs) used to get to 100gbps and beyond over tech like RoCE, Infiniband+RDMA, Elastic Fabric Adapter are in themselves interesting for a clear reason that these are complex distributed systems in their own right with high availability, super low latency, and considerable throughput.
Other networking tech enables not just reliable storage over network (either block devices like EBS or filesystems like EFS or Lustre) but also things like content delivery at internet scale [2].
[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/_msw_/status/1067280447732740097?...
[1] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/co...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17347355