YouTube written in Python

[Terry Reedy]

In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:

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:

That'll put to bed any "Does Python scale" discussions.

[could.net@gmail.com]

Re: YouTube written in Python

Really?
It's awful!
Terry Reedy wrote:

In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:

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:

That'll put to bed any "Does Python scale" discussions.

[Leif K-Brooks]

Re: YouTube written in Python

Terry Reedy wrote:

In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:

>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... :-)

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]

Re: YouTube written in Python


<could.net@gmai l.comwrote in message
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Really?
It's awful!

Awesome?

Terry Reedy wrote:

>In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:

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:

That'll put to bed any "Does Python scale" discussions.

>
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[Simon Brunning]

Re: YouTube written in Python

On 12/13/06, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.e duwrote:

<could.net@gmai l.comwrote:

Really?
It's awful!

>
Awesome?

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

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[chandrasekar.kanagaraj@gmail.com]

Re: YouTube written in Python


Leif K-Brooks wrote:

Terry Reedy wrote:

In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:

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... :-)

>
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@gmail.com]

Re: YouTube written in Python


Leif K-Brooks wrote:

Terry Reedy wrote:

In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:

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... :-)

>
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]

Re: YouTube written in Python


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]

Re: YouTube written in Python

chandrasekar.ka nagaraj@gmail.c om wrote:

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]

Re: YouTube written in Python


<chandrasekar.k anagaraj@gmail. comwrote in message
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>Terry Reedy wrote:

In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:
>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... :-)

awesome.Could you give the link where guido told this

No, I read the list via gmane.comp.pyth on.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]

Re: YouTube written in Python

Terry Reedy wrote:

In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:
>

>>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... :-)

>

Nice quote re youtube on Python.org

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

Will McGugan
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blog: http://www.willmcgugan.com

[John Nagle]

Re: YouTube written in Python

Terry Reedy wrote:

In a thread on the PyDev list, Guido van Rossum today wrote:
>

>>And I just found out (after everyone else probably :-) that YouTube is
>>almost entirely written in Python.

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]

Re: YouTube written in Python


"John Nagle" <nagle@animats. comwrote in message
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>(Guido) YouTube is almost entirely written in Python.

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