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#006 - Building a FAANG Career with Melkey (Senior Go Dev @ Twitch)

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How to Scale a User Interaction on Twitch

There's a separate team altogether that handles everything data. I don't touch any data core data ingestion stuff. My stuff is more so like, yeah, like every everything else when it comes to a user interaction on a Twitch platform. And then it's how do we process the scale of that per user per channel per user channel pair? It gets pretty gnarly pretty quickly. For one channel, let's say a channel like XQC pops up, and XQC not only has 30K live viewers, but 10,000 of them are constantly talking in chat. So we're ingesting all of that data and all those parameters.

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