Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as a rich, concrete look at real-world system design and as evidence of YouTube's early Python stack.
What it is
Cuong Do of YouTube describes how a handful of engineers scaled the site, covering hardware, software and database scalability challenges during its rapid growth. The talk was given at the 2007 Seattle Conference on Scalability.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2008 to 2013.
What Hacker News said
Recommends wave · 2008-07 · on “Early YouTube Engineer Tells All”
Here is a better video with the same subject: [this video] Amazing to see how small the team was before Google acquisition: 2 sysadmin 2 scalability software architects 2 feature developers 2 network engineers 1 DBA
Recommends rosariom · 2011-01 · on “Ask HN: how can I learn about real-world software/system design?”
Hi, I think this is a hard one without working on a big project with senior people. I struggled with this for years and still do but have gotten a little better thanks to senior developers guiding me. I think besides reading books and attending lectures or listening in on talks online, I think you need to find a problem sizable enough and build it from scratch. My work with senior guys has shown me that designing on paper and the white board is essential to tackling the problem for understanding and eventually building it. The patterns will reveal themselves as you go through this exercise if any patterns are needed at all, and I think this is something you definitely will not learn overnigh
Cites tbatterii · 2013-04 · on “Security incident update”
my primary reference that it has always been python is this video from 2007 which was only shortly after they were acquired. [this video]