Comments on: Early YouTube Engineer Tells All

By: Will

Will — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:12:33 +0000

PS,

Thanks to Mukul for going to the trouble of posting a transcript for everyone. That’s what makes GigaOm’s community of users/readers a nice ‘family’ to be a part of.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:06:51 +0000

Hey Liz,

Thanks for the note back. We all learn as we go, so it’s something that, with more advanced planning, can only get better for events like this that we all appreciate having the GigaOm team be our ‘fly on the wall’ for.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:04:49 +0000

Hey Will, you’re right about sucking at video. I was just psyched to be present for the talk and figured more people would want to see it too so I pulled out the camera in my purse. But I promise we will get better in the future!

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Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:17:25 +0000

[...] An early YouTube engineer tells all at the YouTube developer conference on July 10, 2008. Interesting stuff. Be warned it’s taken from a handheld camera so the quality isn’t great. more info here. [...]

By: Mukul Kumar

Mukul Kumar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:21:59 +0000

Really good video. I posted a transcript at (link)

Thanks,
Mukul.

By: JMJimmy

JMJimmy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:08:45 +0000

Very interesting talk.

@anon

That’s how it’s pronounced in the business/tech world.

By: resprungresprung

resprungresprung — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:46:34 +0000

Well worth watching.
For all the right reasons, YouTube launched on with solid, configurable open source components:
Apache / Lighttpd
MySql
Python

…until user demand crushed them, and they had to move to Google distribution tech such as bigtable, and database shards.

An articulate alpha geek with terrible jokes :-)

By: Andras Vass

Andras Vass — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:47:13 +0000

Cuong Do Cuong had already had an excellent presentation about the YouTube architecture at the Seattle Conference on Scalability last year.
A Google video of the presentation can be found here:
(link)

By: anon

anon — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:54:14 +0000

I enjoyed how he can’t pronounce MySQL lol.

By: John Thomas

John Thomas — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:32:24 +0000

Wow that is pretty amazing. Cool stuff to know.

(link)

By: Will

Will — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:09:35 +0000

I love GigaOm and the scope of the reporting, but you guys suck at video.

Perhaps you could invest in a shotgun mic that picks up distant audio more clearly; a portable monopod that steadies the shot; and sit far enough back so that we can see the entire screen.

Don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate being able to see the video, but you need to improve your technique, otherwise instead of being a ‘value-added resource’, it becomes an annoyance.

Thanks.

PS
Anyone know if Scribd or anyone else has a copy of his PPT?

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By: Nag

Nag — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:54:21 +0000

Nice video.. very nice to know what is youtube running on ..

Cheers, Nag