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Software: Google's Secret Sauce?

Posted By Rich Miller On June 26, 2007 @ 9:09 pm In Google | Comments Disabled

Google held a Conference on Scalability [1] in its Seattle office last Saturday, which featured a look at the back-end operations of Google and YouTube, along with presentations by executives from VeriSign, Symantec and Amazon.com. Rackspace CTO John Engates summarized the discussion on the managed hosting company’s Racklabs blog [2]. An excerpt:
Essentially the Google model is to deploy an extremely large amount of commodity (cheap) hardware and storage. The magic is in the software that Google runs on top of this hardware. … What this tells me is that you need to spend your money on developers instead of hardware. It also means your developers need to understand the infrastructure underneath their software. They shouldn’t be allowed to develop their software with the expectation that they can always get a bigger server. My advice

About Rich Miller [3]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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[1] Conference on Scalability: http://www.google.com/events/scalability_seattle/

[2] Racklabs blog: http://blog.racklabs.com/?p=34

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