At scale, every kilobyte counts
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if you have 100,000 feeds, you know, even one extra kilobyte per per feed can add up right up to distribution bandwidth.
Episode 51: preserve protect and extend. That's right Batman. Hello everybody time (approx., from transcript intro) 00:48:35 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Podlove-style chapters in the feed were dropped after two hosting companies objected to feed size. Across 100,000 feeds, even one extra kilobyte per feed adds up in distribution bandwidth. Podcasting 2.0 moved chapters to an external file instead.
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Episode 49: we got boots on the ground. Yeah, Friday once again, (approx., from transcript intro) 00:32:07 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
if you imagine if you're a host, and you have 100,000 podcast, yeah, if every for every kilobyte that you add to the feed, I mean, you're jacking you're hosting your CDN fees way up.
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