Can your datacenter handle this?
Google recently hosted their I/O conference and, during that, a Google Fellow named Jeff Dean illuminated some of their operational measurements;
A single search query touches 700 to 1,000 machines in less then 0.25 seconds.
They currently have 36 data centers containing over 800,000 servers
with 40 servers/rack.
That’s about 555 racks per datacenter and if a standard 19″ [...]
