ELI5: How do services like YouTube simulatenously stream to thousands of users? Submitted by NativeSonSF t3_zzn7uk on December 31, 2022 at 6:12 AM in explainlikeimfive 7 comments 6
Surprise_Logical t1_j2d4tiu wrote on December 31, 2022 at 10:28 AM On demand videos will be cached locally as well, meaning the file is stored in memory as well as on disk, making streaming to multiple requests even faster. As demand drops, other files will replace the video in the cache. Permalink 1
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