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By: How Google Routes Around Outages | External Brain

How Google Routes Around Outages | External Brain — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:16:22 +0000

[...] Making changes to Google’s search infrastructure is akin to changing the tires on a car while you’re going at 60 down the freeway, according Urs Holzle, who oversees the company’s massive data centre operations. Google updates its software and systems on an ongoing basis, usually without incident. But not always. On 24 February a bug in the software that manages the location of Google’s data triggered an outage in Gmail, the widely-used webmail component of Google Apps This entry was posted in Technology. Bookmark the permalink. ← Ontario Court Orders Web Site To Disclose Identity of Anonymous Posters Mythbusters ‘Big Bang’ Shatters Windows → [...]

By: Google Apps Downtime Report: Perfect Example? « UNIX Administratosphere

Google Apps Downtime Report: Perfect Example? « UNIX Administratosphere — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:41:36 +0000

[...] Data Center Knowledge summarized the event well in an article; they have also spoken with Google previously about how they handle [...]

By: Tech News Highlights: Mar 24 - 30, 2009 « D.I.Y. Web Hosting Blog

Tech News Highlights: Mar 24 - 30, 2009 « D.I.Y. Web Hosting Blog — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:56:36 +0000

[...] Skype have released an iPhone application. – Google announces new venture capital fund. – How Google routes around outages. – Smartphones survive Pwn2Own contest. – WebHostingTalk industry forums [...]

By: Fast and furious « The Unofficial CTO Blog

Fast and furious « The Unofficial CTO Blog — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:32 +0000

[...] and furious According to this article change management is a pretty interesting ride at Google. Making changes to Google’s search [...]

By: Analytics Team » Blog Archive » How Google builds systems to route around outages

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:33:50 +0000

[...] is more of a Big Data post than one about analytics. Recently Data Center Knowledge interviewed Urs Holzle who oversees Googles data center operations to find out how they handle [...]

By: Ennuyer.net » Blog Archive » 2009-03-27- Today’s Ruby/Rails Reading

Ennuyer.net » Blog Archive » 2009-03-27- Today’s Ruby/Rails Reading — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:27:36 +0000

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By: Google Glitch Rationalized : Beyond Search

Google Glitch Rationalized : Beyond Search — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:01:46 +0000

[...] Cathy of late. An interesting and insightful l example is “How Google Routes Around Outages” here. Writing in Data Center Knowledge, Rich Miller’s summary of a conversation with Googler Urs [...]

By: G

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:20:47 +0000

>Real geeks work at banks. They are essential to the US economy.

Is this because they were so busy being geeky that they failed to achieve a decent level of intelligence? ie. Those who can do… those who can’t work at banks?

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:07:10 +0000

@John

Yes the financial crisis finds it’s roots in the IT departments of the banks. Perfect

By: Raise Your Data Center Temperature | Michael Phillips Blog

Raise Your Data Center Temperature | Michael Phillips Blog — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:36:25 +0000

[...] following a link to a story about Google’s abilities to “route around outages” that Patrick had on his Blog, I saw a link to another story about Google’s Data Center [...]