Early YouTube Engineer Tells All - GigaOM. When we recently heard about the history of YouTube’s growth strategy from CEO Chad Hurley’s point of view, he described it as “hanging onto a rocket.”
But an engineer’s take is always going to be a bit less rose-colored and a bit more about the terrifying situations you brained your way out of. So we were particularly interested to tune in to a talk at YouTube’s developer conference Thursday by Cuong Do, an early software engineer who’s now manager of the site’s Core Product Engineering group. Do’s talk was titled “Behind the Scenes: A Look Into YouTube’s Infrastructure,” and he didn’t disappoint, with harrowing tales of outages; gory details about the specific languages, architectures, and tools YouTube uses; and a flow-chart level view on the way the site handles uploads and video delivery while undergoing the massive usage it sees on a daily basis. digg “One of the key phrases we had in the early days was ‘These are good problems to have,’” Do said.
Getting Started With Content Management Systems - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement The need to update websites faster to keep content fresh has been ever growing.
Ever since the first business owner wanted their Web designer to update their website faster, content management systems have played an important role on the Web. Why does this matter to you? How do you know if your company is ready? In this article, we will look at how to tell if your organization needs a content management system. A content management system allows you to create, manage, store and edit massive amounts of content without any HTML programming skill.
Also consider our previous articles: 10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMSGoes over what features to look for when choosing a content management system.10 Harsh Truths About Corporate WebsitesExplains the mistakes we all make when running our websites. 1. Do I Need a Content Management System? Does your company update its website content frequently?
2. Meta data plays a key part in search engine optimization (SEO). 3. Parsing Yahoo Pipes JSON Feeds with jQuery. In this article I describe how you can parse and display Yahoo Pipes data returned as a JSON feed.
Yahoo Pipes can be used as a data aggregator that lets you mashup online data sources, such as RSS feeds. To learn more about Yahoo Pipes and how to create them you can watch this video on how Yahoo Pipes work. This first thing I did was to create a Drupal News Pipe that aggregates 5 Drupal related RSS feeds. This Yahoo Pipe is derived from Harry Slaughter's pipe called Drupal News but uses less and partly different data sources and does not exclude feeds based on word filters. When a pipe is created and published you can access it on the pipe's page, subscribe to the RSS feed of the pipe or get the data as a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) string.
Code Snippets and Explanations Now let's start with the actual code. There are 3 important things to note. This PHP script is called via an AJAX request in the pipes.js file, that we will examine now. Summary Links.