Camilo Aguilar on the rsync algorithm

http://paperswelove.org/2017/video/camilo-aguilar-rsync-algorithm/

These days, mobile phones are packed with multi core CPUs and even GPUs. Despite these advances in hardware, internet connections in most parts of the world are still surprisingly slow and unreliable. This creates a challenge: how can files be efficiently transferred between computers over a low-bandwidth, high latency network connection?