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> Better infrastructure means you have undersea cables that enable lower latency video streaming such that users prefer your app over the up and coming app. Uh
by titzer 4y ago
> Better infrastructure means you have undersea cables that enable lower latency video streaming such that users prefer your app over the up and coming app.
Uh, this seems like the kind of thing you want to avoid. Long-haul is for connecting data centers, and media should be pushed to the edge with colos?
> If you have billions of users using your product per day, you can split those users into 100 different “universes”. Each of those universes can map to a team of 10-20 people
This seems like some kind of hallucination written by someone who has not ever seen the internal structure of a 1000+ person product team.
- bobdvb 4y agoCorrect, although if the content origin is on one continent and the consumers on the other continent, then you do need to shift at least a replica of that content across the ocean (then use a local CDN for national/regional delivery). Google has issues with having a large amount of content that is watched at all ends of the Earth, so they do need significant global transit to handle the fact that someone in India is possibly watching something from Indiana. Seeding the CDNs creates significant overhead and if the content happens to have a relatively low popularity, transactional overheads mean that the RTT of the requests creates artificial overhead (RTT effectively starts to look like wasted bandwidth).