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Post by dx034 » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 10:27 AM UTC

ModernMech wrote: post #28

captaincole wrote: post #5

While zoom has faced many privacy concerns in the last few weeks, it is incredible how reliable the service has been given the massive spike in demand. Most services would have buckled (examples abound like robinhoods recent outage) and part of their stack would have not been able to handle the load. On top of that they are in new customer segments that I bet they didn’t see as their user base. I know more than a few…

> While zoom has faced many privacy concerns...I bet they didn’t see as their user base. I know more than a few elementary school teachers They better get on those security concerns quickly if they want to retain these new customer segments: "New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns" https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/05/zoom-new-york-city-schools... "Instead, the city’s Dept. of Education is transiti…

They already changed default values which were the main vector of attack.

Re: undefined

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Post by dx034 » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 10:29 AM UTC

captaincole wrote: post #5

While zoom has faced many privacy concerns in the last few weeks, it is incredible how reliable the service has been given the massive spike in demand. Most services would have buckled (examples abound like robinhoods recent outage) and part of their stack would have not been able to handle the load. On top of that they are in new customer segments that I bet they didn’t see as their user base. I know more than a few…

I would be really interested in a tech writeup on how they managed infrastructure. They run a lot of very bandwidth and presumably CPU intensive servers that they quickly had to scale out massively. There are some older articles that they use Equinix for infrastructure (probably colocation?) but adding that much capacity in a short amount of time is really impressive.

Re: undefined

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Post by dx034 » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 10:31 AM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #13

cs702 wrote: post #7

That's only http traffic to the website, not people connecting via the app or via phone call . Most people use only the app or a phone call , for example to join a conference call hosted by someone else. Beyond business people on company-hosted calls, think students taking remote classes, grandmas connecting with their whole families, friends joining virtual happy hours, people playing social games, and so on. Worldw…

> That's only http traffic to the website ... I suspect a good portion of that 700MM was simply people searching for Zoom to find out what is was, after hearing about it from others or in the news. > Worldwide, I suspect around a couple billion people have recently used Zoom. I recall seeing the number 200MM mentioned and I think that came from Zoom themselves (a blog post or something, maybe?) but don't hold me to t…

Until two weeks ago I was the only one in my family who had used Zoom. By now, each member of my family has used it independentely for different purposes. From casual meet-ups with friends/family over sports classes to seminars and trainings, Zoom really started gaining traction outside of large businesses.