Serving Video

How YouTube serve videos with high-quality and low-latency.

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 76th issue of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

This week, we will explore the YouTube backend and examine the technologies that allow it to serve high-quality and low-latency videos.

The outline will be as follows:

• What is YouTube

• Video Transcoding

• Adaptive Streaming

• The YouTube Video delivery architecture

What is YouTube

YouTube, …