Learning Distributed System by Cloning YouTube: Part 1 - System Design
Spoiler alert: it's more complex than I thought
Jun 12, 202410 min read83

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In this series I document my journey of implementing a distributed system by building a YouTube clone.
Spoiler alert: it's more complex than I thought

Distributed systems are fascinating; it seems that this paradigm is the only answer to the challenge when a system faces an extraordinary workload that a single computer cannot handle. Such workloads are also increasingly common or at least more freq...
