What is powering YouTube?

Question

I am planning to write an internal large video sharing website.

Is there a resource or article that shows how to plan such a large application development and deployment?

Is there a detailed outline on what YouTube is using as their programming language, video servers, etc...?

Answer 1

YouTube Architecture:

1. Apache
2. Python
3. Linux (SuSe)
4. MySQL
5. psyco, a dynamic python->C compiler
6. lighttpd for video instead of Apache

Answer 2

YouTube Platform:

Apache

Python

Linux

MySql

psyco, a dynamic python->C compiler

lighttpd for video instead of Apache

for more info on YouTube Architecture

Answer 3

If I can give you one advise: start small!

Large projects have the tendency to take a long time to finish. If you start small, you have some kind of proof of concept first. So you can extend it piece by piece.

Answer 4

At one point, they were using lighttpd for serving up flash video content. Their HTTP headers indicate they're using Apache for a lot of pages. Their help system runs on python, but I think all of Google's help stuff runs on that, so that's no real surprise. Beyond that, I think it's safe to say there's a lot of in-house technology, no doubt courtesy of Google.

Answer 5

YouTube was developed in Python.

Answer 6

It's powered by Python: