As shown in the Silicon Valley episode “Two Days of the Condor” (S2E10), this episode beautifully illustrates what happens when you don’t prepare for that sudden, exponential traffic growth. Pied Piper, a compression platform, finds its livestream of a museum technician falling into a ravine going viral. This isn’t just a slow build-up; the link gets shared by a major celebrity in the Philippines, Manny Pacquiao, to his two million followers.