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Great video on scaling by YouTube

Posted in Business, Tech, Web 2.0, YouTube by Jared Kim on July 29th, 2007

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.

Daily YouTube-ness

Posted in YouTube by Jared Kim on November 13th, 2006

Great video about YouTube

Posted in Business, Social Networking, Tech, Web 2.0, YouTube by Jared Kim on October 31st, 2006

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.