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FYI, Jeff Dean is the inventor of most of Google's distributed computing infrastructure including MapReduce. Definitely up there with the likes of John Carmack
by narrator 11y ago
FYI, Jeff Dean is the inventor of most of Google's distributed computing infrastructure including MapReduce. Definitely up there with the likes of John Carmack and Fabrice Bellard as one of the great software engineers of all time.
- fmela 11y agoThe Jeff Dean Facts are worth reading: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts Personal favorite: "Jeff Dean once shifted a bit so hard, it ended up on another computer."
- lgas 11y agoI'd wager that way more people know who Jeff Dean is than know who Fabrice Bellard is.
- kybernetikos 11y agoMaybe some people do, personally I'm more familiar with the works of Fabrice Bellard, and that's probably fair enough since I expect I have more pieces of software derived from Bellard projects installed on my machine than I do software derived from Jeff Dean projects (not to criticise Jeff Dean, who I'm sure is very inspirational).
- harperlee 11y agoI just wanted to do a +1 here, but as it is not very HN-worthy, I'll provide a little bit more of work, and just say that a search in HNSearch for "Fabrice Bellard" produced 3 pages of results for tha last year, whereas "Jeff Dean" only produced 2. Personally, I feel I've been more exposed to Fabrice Bellard's work, which might be not true, but I first learned of Jeff Dean's existence yesterday.
- ycosynot 11y agoThis is the MapReduce white paper, from Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, 2004, if people are interested. http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html