Early YouTube Engineer Tells All

Here is a better video with the same subject: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5_eEKEC28

Amazing to see how small the team was before Google acquisition:

2 sysadmin

2 scalability software architects

2 feature developers

2 network engineers

1 DBA

"We searched everywhere online...found a lot of questions but no answers...After a long period of time, we happened to find one blog post that very day..."

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