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Content Distribution and P2P

Distributing one large file to many consumers from a single source bottlenecks on the source's upload bandwidth. P2P systems like BitTorrent split content into chunks and let peers serve chunks to each other, so capacity grows with the swarm instead of shrinking. Chunking enables parallel multi-source download and integrity checks; gossip protocols spread state and membership without a coordinator; CDN edge caching solves the same fan-out problem with managed infrastructure. Applied-AI interviews probe it because shipping multi-gigabyte model weights to a fleet is exactly a one-to-many fan-out problem.

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