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YouTube Video

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A video platform with 2B users, 500 hours of video uploaded per minute. Core challenges: video transcoding at scale, global video delivery.

Requirements

Video Upload & Processing Pipeline

Creator Upload → Raw Storage (S3) → Message Queue → Transcoding Workers

x → x → x ↓ Multiple Resolutions (360p, 720p, 1080p, 4K) → CDN

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

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