Seeing scale issues as purely hardware bound is incredibly naive. Even in a case like streaming, if you’re pushing more bits through the wire, it’s likely the i

Seeing scale issues as purely hardware bound is incredibly naive. Even in a case like streaming, if you’re pushing more bits through the wire, it’s likely the increase in usage causing the traffic increase affects the software systems you have in place to support your service start degrading and you need to rearchitect them. Very few problems at that scale can be solved by throwing more hardware at them.