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Emmett Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch

The Social Radars

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Challenges of Live Streaming and Building Infrastructure

In this chapter, the speakers discuss the challenges they faced with live streaming and the infrastructure they built for it. They talk about using a CDN initially, but finding it lacking in features and cost. They mention how Kyle took charge of the video system and built a proxy to save a copy of the stream. They also talk about the introduction of two key players, Kyle, and Michael Seibel, and how they convinced Seibel to join the team.

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