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Scalability at YouTube

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Scalability at YouTube

A PyCon 2012 talk by early YouTube engineer Mike Solomon on how YouTube scaled its architecture, which is mostly Python.

HN mostly cites it as evidence that YouTube was built on Python and as background on how it scaled.

6 Hacker News mentions · 2012–2024

Topics

  • Distributed systems
  • Python, Ruby & scripting languages
  • Software architecture & design

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