alt Hacker NewsYou're having issues because you're trying to shoehorn it into your desired architecture. Most people just want to run an app on their Windows laptop and start streaming their videos.
You're having issues because you're trying to shoehorn it into your desired architecture. Most people just want to run an app on their Windows laptop and start streaming their videos.
Maybe that’s what most users want, but that’s not what the software was designed to target, judging from all of the documentation and marketing. But yes, clearly the software wasn’t designed to run in a distributed fashion, and that’s kind of the point of my criticism—they had to go out of their way to couple their application in a way that precludes distributed execution. Well designed server software is trivial to distribute, and even if you never run it in a distributed configuration it makes it easy to do the basic parallelism described in this article.