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Thanks for the great explanation. I must say that it sounds great Youtube's culture allows features to be "turned down... code deleted a couple weeks later". Y

• DrJosiah 16y ago
  Well, it's a bit of a new thing. For years there had been a push to start getting rid of lesser-used/unused features. Only a handful had been tossed over the years (including the Erlang, but that was at least as much to get rid of the Erlang as anything else). As I was leaving, the momentum to start reducing features was getting greater and greater. The guy who ultimately deleted my code had taken on maintenance of at least two large pieces of code that 3-4 engineers (including myself) had written over the course of a year and a half, none of whom are still with Google/YouTube. Turning Groups down and deleting the code simplified his job immensely, of that I am sure.