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Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Kiwix seems to able to distribute offline wikipedia stackoverflow etc that way - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_i

• jsilence 7y ago
  Peertube is distributing the video streams P2P. Would be interesting to see whether KA could adapt that technology into their platform.
  • rany_ 7y ago
    Khan Academy uses YouTube for videos, they have no problems with YouTube.
• satyanash 7y ago
  > Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Only if they could figure out a way to host their learning platform, content and scoring on it.
  • op03 7y ago
    Instead of link to vid replace it (or place side by side) with link to torrent (probably with a note about torrent clients the same way Kiwix does). The rest of the platform can still be used as is. Most people will just click and download will be pretty quick (most vids are quite small).
    • kiba 7y ago
      Video doesn't cost them anything. It's hosted on youtube anyway. It's the rest of the stuff that costs them money.
      • op03 7y ago
        Ah ok then torrents don't make much sense.
• sim_card_map 7y ago
  They can also move from Python.
  • cellularmitosis 7y ago
    they recently posted about how they are doing exactly that.
  • hd4 7y ago
    Agreed. I wish more companies/nonprofits/whatever would make better decisions early on about their infrastructure, or at least gradually graft in better tooling over time.
  • akerro 7y ago
    This gonna cost a lot to rewrite
  • RenierZA 7y ago
    Here is the article explaining their plans to move to Go. https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm