YouTube Architecture

Platform

* Apache
* Python
* Linux (SuSe)
* MySQL
* psyco, a dynamic python->C compiler
* lighttpd for video instead of Apache

The Stats

* Supports the delivery of over 100 million videos per day.
* Founded 2/2005
* 3/2006 30 million video views/day
* 7/2006 100 million video views/day
* 2 sysadmins, 2 scalability software architects
* 2 feature developers, 2 network engineers, 1 DBA

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