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Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition
Y Combinator Startup Podcast
How to Scale a Live Video Site
At the time, hardware was bad and technology was not great. If they had to scale a single database, a single users table to hundreds of millions of people would have been impossible. Twitch's peaks were 20x that of other live video sites at the time. The site didn't figure out how to deal with this problem until later.
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