/prog/ - YouTube is written in Python

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 17:38

Problem?

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 18:39

If Google used a better language they could have cut their number of servers in half. Python is reducing Google's profit margins. Feels good, man.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 18:51

all the video encoding stuff is obviously not written in python

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 19:39

also, the main part you interact with is written in actionscript, not python

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 19:51

>>2
Citation Needed.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 21:11

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

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 21:31

>>2
Are servers such a big expenditure for google?
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/google-largest-site-world.html
1 billion unique visitors per month.
Doesn't look like a big number in today's terms. Maybe a few terrabytes of HTTP transfers, while most work is done by Apache, which is C/C++ program.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 21:39

is that why videos often quit loading partway through for no reason

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 23:01

>>7
Apache

lol!

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 23:07

Why don't they use Go? It's still shit, but at least it's compiled and not FIOC.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-19 23:12

>>10
Guido pays google to use python

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 0:14

>>10
Is it really worth the investment when their current systems are working? It makes sense to use Go for new projects, not for established and operational systems.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 2:17

>>8
I suspect that problem is with Flash, not Python. I think Flash wasn't designed to handle connections that are dropped for too long. I think this because as soon as I refresh the video page, the video usually resumes downloading from where it left off.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 2:38

>>7
They don't use Apache, do you seriously believe that Apache can handle that workload? Please, it's good for toy servers but not much else.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 2:46

>>14
implying they don't use Apache as a base then improving it to meet their needs

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 4:12

http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 15:52

Bump for Python master race.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 15:55

16 < nice article

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 15:59

>>18
nice timestamp triples

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 19:24

Really? Great! Tons of security holes to exploit in YouTube now, fuck yeah.

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 21:06

>>22
nice dubs bro

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 21:20

check 'em!

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 21:44

>>10
It's doesn't matter whether it's compiled or interpreted if it has garbage collection. It's "compiled to disk" vs. "compiled to memory". Oh, yes, loading times...

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 21:47

>>15
That's right.
implying you're not a causal programmer

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-20 23:40

python is the best language
the only better language is javascript

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-21 1:19

>>24
What does that have to do with anything?

YouTube is written in Python

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