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> needed to do extraordinary things to keep it performant and maintainable.

This is very interesting. Can you share more about this?




i can't, unfortunately, it was youtube internal code. but by the same token a lot of the performance stuff was specific optimisations for that code and would not really generalise.

one of the current "extremely large python codebase" projects is instagram, and they do have some public repos, notably monkeytype (https://github.com/Instagram/MonkeyType) which youtube did have its own analogue of, and cinder (https://engineering.fb.com/2022/05/02/open-source/cinder-jit...). in general facebook's engineering blog is a great place to read about this sort of thing.




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