Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:25AM
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When Twitter came out I was like "well it's a glorified shoutbox, I can hack that in an afternoon". Actually it still is, any developer can create a Twitter clone in hours. However Twitter managed to have the network effect, and (eventually) solve the huge scaling challenge that a system that transfers billions (?) of messages worldwide every day.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
by Jyaif on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:38AM
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Twitter is hard to scale, you have to make trade-offs all over the place.
AFAIK that's not the case of Shazam where a read-only database would be enough. Sure eventually you have to manage multiple versions of your app and be able to gradually update your DB, but that's still simple stuff compared to the problem of how to make money.