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Re:AWS increased error rates / intermittent outages on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:23PM (#12124140)
Looks like it's just their service API for now, i.e not responding to any queries on existing instances for me at all. However, everything else is working fine as far as I can tell.
Re:AWS increased error rates / intermittent outages on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:13PM (#12124069)
In the console, running instances was timing out on load for EC2 and some of our AWS API calls to get hostnames are timing out in PHP
This is the kind of stuff that should be number on HN everyday.
Re:Facebook - Broadcasting live video to millions on Thursday December 03, 2015 @04:36PM (#10672834)
I'm curious why Facebook was willing to sacrifice delivering adaptive stream to get better latency. I guess they explain that for "Live for People," it makes more sense to have less latency through RTMP, as opposed to possibly worse video or connection. However, I know Periscope is using HLS for all of their stream, save for Android where it looks like RTSP.

Anyone have any thoughts or insights on Facebook's decision to use RTMP as opposed to HLS?