Scalability at YouTube
What it is
A PyCon 2012 talk by early YouTube engineer Mike Solomon on how YouTube scaled its architecture, which is mostly Python.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly cites it as evidence that YouTube was built on Python and as background on how it scaled.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2012, last 2024
What HN commenters said
“YouTube (owned by Google) is mainly Python.”
PyCon 2012 talk on YouTube's Python architecture
gitarr, 2012-09 · Recommendation · in “We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions”
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Topics: youtube, python, scalability, pycon, web architecture
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