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My theory is that they lag when logging people in and sending the questions over. Seems like streaming video is a solved problem, but they’re struggling to scal
by chis 9y ago
My theory is that they lag when logging people in and sending the questions over. Seems like streaming video is a solved problem, but they’re struggling to scale their custom logic governing the trivia.
- a13n 9y agoThey've only had a few weeks to scale up from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand concurrent websocket connections. It's weird that it works great sometimes, and other times it doesn't. I'd love to read their engineering blog!
- azinman2 9y agoIn my experience it's the video that's the problem.
- mm9000 9y agoFor me, the questions and answers are always served but the video rarely shows. Which honestly works for me because I find the host pretty annoying.
- whafro 9y agoStreaming video in the conventional case may be a solved problem, but HQ has the additional (and seemingly unique to me) challenge of needing the streams to be nearly perfectly in sync. It's less like a bunch of people streaming HBO and more like half a million folks viewing a live webinar or something. I can imagine WebEx, a far more established and mature product, might cough a bit too.