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Large-scale one-to-many events occur when many people want the same content at the same time. Historical use cases included IPTV, but while video-on-demand (VoD) applications rose in recent decades, demand for live streaming and large-scale software updates also increased significantly. One can think of the very recent (at the time of writing this blog) Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer, which Netflix released for only a few hours and which crashed the platform due to high demand. And we are not even talking about downloading the game, which should weigh more than 150 GB. More examples of this have emerged in recent years, including live-streaming sports events, Fortnite, and software updates.