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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#374
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I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

I am proud to say that in 2008 my country knocked this puny website off the interwebs in a bid to censor it within the country. They accidentally hijacked the global IP addresses[0] I am also proud to say that my country left the domain for their original Internet Exchange Point[1] unregistered. Guess who scooped it up? PS. My country is Pakistan. [0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offli... […

I was going to link to the video of a Dyn employee (Todd whatshisname) doing a parody of American Pie about this -- "The Day The Youtube Died" -- but the only link I have to the video is on Youtube. :/

Here are the lyrics [0] instead, you'll just have to sing it to yourself.

[0]: https://dyn.com/blog/the-day-the-youtube-died-1/

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#377

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still Python+MySQL for what I can tell. But also has parts in Go (see i.e. their work on vitess to scale MySQL access https://vitess.io/ )

They now run their python code using a transpiler into Go with a Go runtime and Go libraries: https://github.com/google/grumpy

Reminds me about Facebook, who transpiled PHP to C++. Before creating their HHVM interpreter and their hack language.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#380

Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.

I bet it’s a core network issue since it went down globally at the same time.. they deploy new binaries slowly so that shouldn’t cause it. Maybe some config was changed without testing?

Is it down globally? I've has some EU people on Mastodon say it's still up for them.
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