[cambalache]

> I don’t want to second guess technical decisions I know nothing about but: no, Rails shouldn’t be streaming video.

Yeah, if you are serving video at that rate, there are plenty of CDNs to work with, why would you submit your app engine to that.

[kazinator]

If a Rails back-end streamed video, there wouldn't literally be a loop written in Ruby shoving bytes back and forth stored in Ruby arrays or buffers. It would be farmed off to something appropriate. You wouldn't necessarily want that machine to be doing it, using any middleware.