YouTube written in Python

[Terry Reedy]

And I just found out (after everyone else probably that YouTube is
almost entirely written in Python. (And now I can rub shoulders with
the developers since they're all Googlers now...

In reply, Simon Brunning noted:

 

[could.net]

Really?
It's awful!

In reply, Simon Brunning noted:

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

Interesting. I wonder what they're using for a Web framework? Of course,
sites that size generally use lots of custom stuff, but it would
presumably be based on something.

 

[Terry Reedy]

Really?
It's awful!
Awesome?

 

[Simon Brunning]

Awesome?

Well, it's got some pretty awful clips on it, but I don't think you
can blame that on the technology. ;-)

 

[chandrasekar.kanagaraj]

Interesting. I wonder what they're using for a Web framework? Of course,
sites that size generally use lots of custom stuff, but it would
presumably be based on something.

awesome.Could you give the link where guido told this
-Chandru

 

[chandrasekar.kanagaraj]

Interesting. I wonder what they're using for a Web framework? Of course,
sites that size generally use lots of custom stuff, but it would
presumably be based on something.

awesome.Could you give the link where guido told this
-Chandru

 

[Lad]

Speaking of YouTube, does anyone know how they uploads big files(
100MB)
I need to solve that problem ( in Python of course) and YouTube is a
good sample of that.
Lad.

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

awesome.Could you give the link where guido told this

you need to work on your google skills:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/070323.html

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[Terry Reedy]

awesome.Could you give the link where guido told this

No, I read the list via gmane.comp.python.devel. Search the archives at
Python.org if you want, but I quoted all he wrote and will probably copy
over any significant new info should any be posted. Exact details are
probably considered trade secrets by YouTube.

Terry Jan Reedy

 

[Will McGugan]

Nice quote re youtube on Python.org

http://www.python.org/about/quotes/

Will McGugan

 

[John Nagle]

Probably just the web page maintenance system is in Python.
I doubt that actual video passes through Python at any point.
Transcoding in Python would take forever.

John Nagle

 

[Terry Reedy]

Probably just the web page maintenance system is in Python.

I am sure that that is pretty much all he meant.

I doubt that actual video passes through Python at any point.
Transcoding in Python would take forever.

I would expect that the video files are stored in a ready-to-send format.
And that they wrote or perhaps adapted a pre-written compilable video
library.
Ditto for the backend database. And CPython makes it relatively easy to
call such add-ons.

tjr