a peek on youtube’s infrastructure

I need not give an introduction about what Youtube is., but I’d certainly like to share the behind the scenes footage of Youtube.

Cuong Do, an early engineer of the site’s Core Product Engineering group tells all about Youtube’s infrastructure.

They use the nicest ( not the best ) of all the Open Source Components like Apache/Lighttpd, MySQL, Python, etc.,

Interesting video though.,

compiling apache2 with the bundled APR-util

One of my production servers has Subversion already installed. ( which means apr is already installed ! )

When I wanted to compile and install apache2, configure would not allow me to do and exited with this error

Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library ...


checking for APR... yes
setting CC to "gcc"
setting CPP to "gcc -E"
setting CFLAGS to " -g -O2"
setting CPPFLAGS to " -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT"
setting LDFLAGS to " "

Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...

checking for APR-util... reconfig
configure: error: Cannot use an external APR with the bundled APR-util

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