A common placebo for a small dose of psychadelics is a large dose of niacin, which causes you to flush and get hot flashes and chills. It's more than enough to get the mind going for someone who is bracing for the drugs to kick in.
The next step for CarPlay might be more than just an iPad-sized screen, it could be the entire dashboard and Apple might have a thing to say about the interior design of cars.
I think a company going from zero to massively produced and heavily scrutinised car in one step is too big a jump without acquiring someone along the way or signing up a existing player.
Last year I sailed my 30' boat from Oakland to Hawaii. I went three weeks with no sign of life aside from Albatross and flying fish. None. I couldn't even get my sat phone to work 90% of the time. I covered, roughly, the distance from Oakland to about Massachusetts. My boat was much smaller, and had very little as far as safety equipment on a passenger jet. While both might be exceptionally hard to spot -- even a 1000' vehicle with 1000' span would be hard to find on solid ground somewhere between CA and MA, add deep water, and that piece of wing was not attached to the plane when it hit the water. I know this as it still was shaped like a wing. I'm also a pilot and can only guess as well as other pilots, but when you over-stress the airframe from a loss of control, you can fold a wing. No life jackets floating as they're still in the plane which likely hit well before that chunk of wing fluttered down into the water. I doubt we'll ever really know. Seems unlikely to have been a bomb, as shit would be washing up.
It's really weird to have these settings to cripple your load balancer, which already is an idea that gives me an involuntary shudder, and to cap it off the idea is that this is somehow a performance hack.
I posit a different idea. Trust the fact that web servers are written by folks who actually realized that their code would be on the internet, serving up web pages, and that some thought has gone into optimizing things already. Artificially shaping traffic and guessing that things run faster because you just figured it would is why ops people will not give you access to machines in production.
Crank the load balancer up to 11. If your code can't handle traffic, don't break the rest of the network to protect it from traffic. Fix the back end problems.
I can pick up two $300 foundry/brocade load balancers on ebay that will handle 1,000,000 connections at wirespeed (each) through custom ASICs, do full health checks, layer 7 header hashing, layer 7 switching, run multiple load balancing algorithms, hand out dhcp, serve as a VRRP gateway with it's peer, and have totally stateless failover on top of it.
I do it. Two data centers, east and west coast. For better or worse I peer with the same providers on each side, which doesn't do much for your traffic so much as juggling ISP maintenance that might affect you. I've not heard a single complaint due to anything relating to anycast.
Considering that you're getting a damn robust global scale load balancer for free, and it mostly maintains itself -- it's hard to argue against it,
