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How YouTube Scaled with Python | PyCon 2012

Next Day Video · Talk · 39 min · 2012 · YouTube title: Scalability at YouTube
Why it's here

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

What it covers

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