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by zachlatta 4721 days ago
With a huge engineering team of very smart people. YouTube has some incredible technology powering their backend. Most people seem to underestimate how much work went into it.
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DeafTV 4721 days ago
That is true, but if you could create something that is similar with service that is available via third party. What would you do?
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DeafTV 4721 days ago
What about having Wowza Media Server with Rackspace and Amazon S3?
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zachlatta 4721 days ago
The key word in your question was "better." Sure, building a YouTube alternative is doable. But to make something better than YouTube (disregarding politics) would be an extremely impressive feat.
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DeafTV 4721 days ago
Okay, I apologize for misuse of better. What service would you use to build an alternative of YouTube, but yet have advertising features like Hulu?
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