What framework does youtube use?

ruby-on-rails django frameworks youtube backend
BananaNeil picture BananaNeil · Dec 2, 2011 · Viewed 14.2k times · Source

Does anybody know if youtube uses Django, Rails or some other framework?

I googled, but couldn't seem to find any straight forward answer.

Answer

Srikar Appalaraju picture Srikar Appalaraju · Dec 2, 2011

Presumably this is their stack -

  1. Apache
  2. Python
  3. Linux Suse
  4. MySQL
  5. Psyco - dynamic python-C compiler
  6. lighttpd - for video instead of apache
  7. maybe Java

According to this website. But most of these companies keep it a secret what exactly they use. Even to date its not clear what kind of webservers Google uses...

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