Myspace used to have a feature that showed how big your extended network was. The problem with Myspace is it didn't scale well for popular streamers like celebrities. colonemic came up with a solution, which involved propagating the original stream across multiple video servers until there were not enough people reviewing. It was dirty, but it worked.
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel on software hacks that don't scale. Companies discussed include Google, Facebook, Twitch, and imeem. Watch the first video on doing things that don't scale here: https://youtu.be/4RMjQal_c4U
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