2/18/2026 at 2:00:52 AM
by aqeelat
2/18/2026 at 2:07:42 AM
Discussion (106 points, 1 hour ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055723by gnabgib
2/18/2026 at 5:02:56 AM
And another on the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055696by mrbluecoat
2/18/2026 at 3:23:53 AM
When I see these kinda posts, I always wonder,- just how many 8GB ram servers do you actually think youtube runs?
- how many petabytes of capacity do they actually have?
- if your revenue from advertising is more or less going to be between a ballpark range, how do you manage ever increasing storage costs?
by vivzkestrel
2/18/2026 at 5:20:35 AM
Why 8GB?by Retr0id
2/18/2026 at 8:29:45 AM
just took it as an exampleby vivzkestrel
2/18/2026 at 2:53:06 PM
Well, my understanding is that YouTube doesn't run on VMs, it runs on Borg (kubernetes precursor) containers... tens of millions of them.by esseph