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Cuong Do explains how a small team of engineers scaled YouTube's database, software, and hardware infrastructure during its early rapid growth.
Google Tech Talks June 23, 2007 ABSTRACT This talk will discuss some of the scalability challenges that have arisen during YouTube's short but extraordinary history. YouTube has grown incredibly rapidly despite having had only a handful of people responsible for scaling the site. Topics of discussion will include hardware scalability, software scalability, and database scalability. Speaker: Cuong Do Cuong is currently an engineering manager at YouTube/Google. He was part of the engineering team that scaled the YouTube software and hardware infrastructure from its infancy to its current scale. Prior to YouTube/Google, he held various software development and management positions at PayPal and...What people say. Recommended as a classic talk on early web scalability and how a tiny team managed YouTube's massive growth.
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