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″ [...]
Working at a large technology company I’m familiar with the “graying” of IT. While often public perspective on “technology” is skewed by the Kevin Rose’s of the world in enterprise situations it’s often much different.
It’s not uncommon to start a job as the only “new hire” around, surrounded by people who’ve been working in their [...]
I hope those who know me wouldn’t peg me as an alarmist. So take my title with a grain of salt but also, because of that same optimism, with a sense of sobriety.
I’ve followed “cloud computing” for a while (before it was called that), most often in the context of Amazon. From my position, it’s [...]
If you’ve read my earlier posts you know I spend a bit of time following Amazon, both from a business perspective as well as my interest in the energy they’ve invested in webservice (SaaS) technologies.
I recently gave a presentation to discuss their offerings and wanted to make that available to anyone interested.
I build presentations that [...]
I used to to have many great discussions with a coworker, Dan. I think (hope) we both learned a lot from each other, because even though we have similar “technical philosophies” we approached problems differently, akin to the “Generalist vs Specialist” debates.
Though Dan and I don’t get to have face to face discussions anymore, we [...]
As the year draws to a close, I’ve been busy trying to complete multiple projects concurrently. However, a few months ago I purchased an iPhone and it’s proven to be very effective at productively filling the “in between” time.
I only owned an nano previously and never used it for much beyond the gym. However, with [...]
