Fascinating deep dive on Twitch deliberately constructing a 10GiB array to reduce the number of GC cycles in Go: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-heap/
(This trick is no longer necessary in the new Go 1.19 apparently, as it's added a GOMEMLIMIT environment variable.)
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Using Twitch to livestream computer science lectures is a really neat approach: https://composition.al/blog/2020/03/31/twitch-plays-cse138/
Gaming tools are pretty mature and work well!
YouTube is giving uploaders new ways to monetise their content, including selling merchandise: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/youtube-introduces-channel-memberships-merchandise-and-premieres/
It's largely competing with Twitch (which makes tipping easy and desirable) but also the wider ecosystem of vlogger monetisation services.
Twitter is being unbundled before our eyes
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/23/15039062/twitter-unbundling-twitch-reddit-instagram
Another interpretation is that we're still figuring out what a social fabric should look like.
What features should it have? How do we maximise discoverability? What moderation tools work at scale?
