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by tecleandor 634 days ago
Also it's just not those concrete 190GBs a day. It's the 6x traffic you can fit in the same pipe :D
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Yeah exactly! The longer we can make it without having to shard the firehose, the better. It's a lot less complex to consume as a single stream.
Also, being some sort of streaming firehose with the same data for everyone (if I understood what this is in a quick read) I guess if it makes any sense to do any kind of P2P/distributed transfer of it to ease the load...