Comment by jayjader

> It was only by rethinking every layer of our infrastructure that we were able to pull Spotify off, to create that magic moment of double-clicking on a new song and having it instantly play. And speaking of magic …

This reminds me of a conference that John Carmack gave (in 2019?) where he goes over how [the occulus team] got input latency down to a manageable amount on modern hardware.

It's an interesting data point that both these efforts to produce "magic" required an in-depth "rethinking" of many of the underlying stack layers.