Ok. But all this testing and the optimizations have been announced being necessary for customers in the sales pipeline. I believe you have announced that, I can’t remember. So it would be great to learn if with all the tweaking we are gearing towards what those customers expect because at the end this is what everybody wants I guess, to have the network ready to take on the requirements of them. And if there are signs that the progress brings us closer to the deal and the potential customers are pleased with what we are able to offer, then it would be great to hear about it. Even more of course if a contract has been won.
This sounds very interesting. And if it helps to not to overload the nodes with upload requests they cannot fulfill then it is even better. Are we going to see longer tests with that like over the course of several days?
But does this kind of selection work even more in favor of nodes that are close to the uploader? It is just because for the use case where upload and download location are the same or close, this is perfect.
But Storj advertises kind of worldwide CDN-like file access speeds. And when the use-case is to move files fast, so that they get uploaded in place Toronto but downloaded in Singapore would that new node selection not hurt that experience?
My idea would be to give a customer an option to select which matches their use case best:
- Upload in A download in A
- Upload in A download in B
- Upload in A download everywhere
And while the node selection for upload could always be the ones that are fastest to the uploader which gives him a good uploading experience. In the background the repair workers could distribute the files over time according to the customers use case.
And of course also the S3 gateways could take that profile selection into account as well when uploading and select nodes according to the customers profile.
Maybe at some time in the future maybe even AI could be used to find the best node selection and distribution for each file of a customer based on the upload and download behavior. An AI powered node selection and file distribution based on individual customer behavior, that would be awesome.