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> I always assumed YouTube’s technical foundations were significantly subsidized by the mothership, but I have no data to base that on

I'd venture to guess that YouTube provided more value than just their customer base. I often wonder how much of their tech stack made it into the larger Google org.

Example; for the longest time when you'd log into gsuite via a SAML IdP you'd notice a youtube url in the login flow.

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> I often wonder how much of their tech stack made it into the larger Google org.

Very little, though that may be changing. Most of YouTube was written in Python, which is essentially unknown for a production system at Google.

> Example; for the longest time when you'd log into gsuite via a SAML IdP you'd notice a youtube url in the login flow.

This was just to set the YouTube "logged in" cookie.

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