YouTube's Presentation About Scalability at Google's Seattle Conference On Scalability
Monday, August 27th, 2007
At the recent Seattle Conference on Scalability organized by Google, Cuong Do, an engineering manager at YouTube, talks about YouTube's growth over the past 2 years and the scalability problems they have overcome. All in all, it's a very interesting presentation that I can recommend to anyone remotely interested in large-scale projects, such as YouTube.
One interesting fact that Cuong mentions is that the pre-Google YouTube tech team consisted of only 2 sysadmins, 2 scalability software architects, 2 developers, 2 networks engineers, and 1 DBA. It's quite impressive that such a small team managed to maintain and scale such a widely popular service.
Here's the presentation (52min long):
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January 17th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
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February 11th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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