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Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability
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Cuong Do of YouTube describes how a handful of engineers scaled the site, covering hardware, software and database scalability challenges during its rapid growth. The talk was given at the 2007 Seattle Conference on Scalability.
HN recommends it as a rich, concrete look at real-world system design and as evidence of YouTube's early Python stack.
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