[LUAU] "YouTube is almost entirely written in Python"

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On 12/15/06, Julian Yap <julian_yap at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> A recent post from Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python
> programming language:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/070323.html
>
> "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...
> :-)"
>
> Python.org has a quote too:
> http://www.python.org/about/quotes/
>
> "Python is fast enough for our site and allows us to produce
> maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of
> developers," said Cuong Do, Software Architect, YouTube.com.
>
>
> In case you thought that Python or dynamic languages don't scale
> or that you've been FUD'd into believing you need to use Java or
> .Net for the web.  That may be true in some corporate
> environments but you're probably not going to get acquired for
> $1.65 billion.
>
> You can tell that a lot of YouTube uses MySQL and a hell of a
> lot of database replication to cope with the custom queries for
> different sections.  It's like, hmm, over hear it says 19,622
> views and over here in the related box it says it's had 15,613
> views.
>
> Mind you, all of the major bandwidth for the videos is handled
> by 3rd parties.
>
> ~ Julian
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