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Scalability at YouTube

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

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

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HN discussion years: 2012-2024

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