The web is just the most convenient place to deliver software.
Justin.tv has a huge* amount of highly concurrent, high performance Python code that delivers our video. That video is still delivered via the web, though.
Speaking of which, we're hiring...
* It's not actually that many lines of code, but it's comparable to our web codebase.
Thanks for pointing that out, Emmett, we are indeed hiring! Both our chat server and Video cluster are written in Python's Twisted framework. We're always looking for smart hackers who want to help us make our systems better. Everyone at JTV is tossed in the deep end (Bill, who found us through news.yc, learned Twisted, wrote and deployed our chat server in his first two weeks here). Find out more here: http://blog.justin.tv/2007/07/justintv-is-hiring.html
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The web is just the most convenient place to deliver software.
Justin.tv has a huge* amount of highly concurrent, high performance Python code that delivers our video. That video is still delivered via the web, though.
Speaking of which, we're hiring...
* It's not actually that many lines of code, but it's comparable to our web codebase.
Thanks for pointing that out, Emmett, we are indeed hiring! Both our chat server and Video cluster are written in Python's Twisted framework. We're always looking for smart hackers who want to help us make our systems better. Everyone at JTV is tossed in the deep end (Bill, who found us through news.yc, learned Twisted, wrote and deployed our chat server in his first two weeks here). Find out more here: http://blog.justin.tv/2007/07/justintv-is-hiring.html
Or email justin at justin.tv