How do social media companies like twitter or youtube not run out of space for posts?
I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
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every time it lags, it's because youtube has to send someone down to the basement to retrieve the correct blu-ray disc from a storage room
Actual footage of data being manually retrieved from Google's datacentre
God bless those interns. Earning those college credits.
And that guy is out today..