Jared Kim’s Weblog

YouTube’s head engineer gave a talk at Google about the scaling strategies they employed during their growth. This video clocks in at almost 1 hour and covers every single part of web scalability I can think of: web, database, file, and more.

This is one of the most interesting and entertaining (animation) videos I’ve seen in a while. It’s funny, yet sad also.

Just watched Jawed Karim’s talk on YouTube at UofI . Most of the video is about social media and web 2.0 in general, nothing new for most geeks & entrepreneurs out there.

However, it gets pretty interesting towards middle/end when he starts talking about YouTube’s early founding -> today.

He showed one video where the three founders were sitting around and talking about how they thoughtYouTube sucked about 3-4 months after they launched. Even the best have their lows.