How to for YouTube YouTube: Lessons Learned

In 2023 alone, my team processed 1.2 billion YouTube API requests across 14 production services. We burned $420k in unnecessary quota costs, hit 12-hour API outages, and lost 3 enterprise clients before we learned these 15 lessons. Here’s the unvarnished truth of building at YouTube scale, complete with runnable code and benchmark numbers. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (43 points) .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? (568 points