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How Google Manages Data Across Data Centers
- By: Rich Miller
  August 24th, 2009
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How does Google manage data across the many data centers the company operates? At the Google i/o Developer Conference in May, Google’s Ryan Barrett discusses “multihoming” across multiple data center locations with large scale storage systems. Barrett’s presentation examines different approaches to multi-homing, with a particular focus on how Google engineers the App Engine datastore. This video runs about 1 hour. (Link via High Scalability, which has additional commentary).

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Posted August 30th, 2009

Lucene and Nutch are great open source starting points for anyone interested in creating something similar. On the scale that these guys are doing it however, is simply awe inspiring. As the 26th richest person in the world, Sergy Brin is obviously more than a data mining guru and someone that I would be very comfortable in calling boss.