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The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming
Mostly to make use of an animation I made for a different blog post that hasn’t materialised, let me take a moment to explain to you the fundamental technical difference between ‘streaming’ and ‘downloading’. Which won’t take long… because there isn’t one!
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I always thought of downloading as getting all the data first, before using it. And streaming, it is more of being able to process/use the chunks as they arrived. Great article.
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