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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

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261 points tosh | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 18:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.48s | source
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wiml ◴[06 Nov 24 21:31 UTC] No.42069745[source]▶
> One complicating factor here is that raw video is surprisingly high bandwidth.

It's weird to be living in a world where this is a surprise but here we are.

Nice write up though. Web sockets has a number of nonsensical design decisions, but I wouldn't have expected that this is the one that would be chewing up all your cpu.

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1. arccy ◴[06 Nov 24 21:42 UTC] No.42069915[source]▶
I think it's just rare for a lot of people to be handling raw video. Most people interact with highly efficient (lossy) codecs on the web.
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2. adastra22 ◴[06 Nov 24 23:38 UTC] No.42071309[source]▶
Even compressed video is massive data though.