Re:Using Python helped YouTube ship features faster than Goo...
by bb88 on Monday March 26, 2018 @09:24PM
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You say:
> Social features are a great use case for Python
And then say:
> On the other hand around the time YouTube were acquired they struggling tremendously with the scaling aspects of their operation and large chunks of the site had to be quickly switched to C++.
I fail to see how python failed youtube here.
You use the right tools for the job. And the tools that got you 10e1 views per day may not be the tools that get you to 10e10 views per day.
I once worked at a place that supposedly "engineered" their backend to handle 1,000,000 connections at once. Only everything fell over at 10,000 connections in production, and they struggled for two years to get to 100,000 connections.
The point is, you don't know what you don't know, and you won't know the pain points are until you hit them. And the more groundbreaking your service (in this case internet video distribution), the chance of your architecture being 100% correct from the start is zero.
> Social features are a great use case for Python
And then say:
> On the other hand around the time YouTube were acquired they struggling tremendously with the scaling aspects of their operation and large chunks of the site had to be quickly switched to C++.
I fail to see how python failed youtube here.
You use the right tools for the job. And the tools that got you 10e1 views per day may not be the tools that get you to 10e10 views per day.
I once worked at a place that supposedly "engineered" their backend to handle 1,000,000 connections at once. Only everything fell over at 10,000 connections in production, and they struggled for two years to get to 100,000 connections.
The point is, you don't know what you don't know, and you won't know the pain points are until you hit them. And the more groundbreaking your service (in this case internet video distribution), the chance of your architecture being 100% correct from the start is zero.