It's like when your uncle squeezes you at Christmas. You're glad to see him again, but it's just a liiiitttleee... too... much... for... your... lungssss,.,.,.,
Anecdotally, I've run a bunch of traceroutes and reverse traceroutes to different locations and they tend to follow the same AS paths — although sometimes the traceroute will surface more routing through your ISP (especially from college networks). In general you are correct, though, and I would love to explain more about hot-potato vs. cold-potato (and other interesting routing decisions) in the future. Either way, the results the reverse traceroute provides are good enough for the purposes of explaining the internet, IMO!
This is awesome! To anyone interested in learning more about this, I wrote https://cpu.land/ a couple years ago. It doesn't go as in-depth into e.g. memory layout as OP does but does cover multitasking and how the code is loaded in the first place.
i don't think it's your fault. spotify's entire website is down for me right now, i'm getting "upstream request timeout" and "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow" just trying to load the homepage. this happens every couple of months.
