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I just wanted to mention that I remember the Baumgartner freefall for a specific thing: I watched it streaming live on youtube and I remember looking at the num
by riffraff 6y ago
I just wanted to mention that I remember the Baumgartner freefall for a specific thing: I watched it streaming live on youtube and I remember looking at the number of active viewers climbing above 3M (I think maybe up to 8).
This was 2012, and I realized 1) youtube had insane scalability 2) live streaming was going to be a much bigger thing then I could ever imagine.
- jefftk 6y agoThis was just after I had started at Google, and I was on the same floor as the YouTube engineers responsible for the CDN. I remember a crowd around their dashboards as the spectacle of "we didn't know our metrics could go that high" competed with a spectacle of someone jumping from space.