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Design YouTube — Video Upload, Transcoding & CDN Delivery at Scale (with Production .NET Code)

Community description: "Design YouTube" is where two systems live in one product, pulling in opposite directions. The write...

Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | kirandeepjassal-crypto

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Playback never waits on a transcoder; uploads never touch the CDN. The transcoding pipeline — the write core. Keep them apart: playback depends only on the blob store and the CDN, never on the transcoders; uploads never touch the read path.

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