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Ask HN: Facebook Lookback implementation

5 pointsby dquailover 11 years ago
Probably a noob question. But whats the best practice for Facebook, and others like JibJab for streaming dynamic videos based off templates? Is each view dynamically created? Is a video created upon the first request and cached for each subsequent playback?

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xukiover 11 years ago
The video doesn't change and it was pretty fast when I first viewed it. At Facebook scale I'd guess they have to generate the video in advance. Would love to hear from anyone who worked on this feature.