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Please note that Google HQ is in Mountain View, CA, so expanding in Seattle is analogous to adding spare nodes in your distributed system, not single point of f
by mehrdada 9y ago
Please note that Google HQ is in Mountain View, CA, so expanding in Seattle is analogous to adding spare nodes in your distributed system, not single point of failure.
- polskibus 9y agoGoogle exec quoted in the article said that Seattle ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’. It means that most of the engineering behind Google Cloud (not Google itself) will be there, implying the concentration I mentioned.
- mehrdada 9y agoI believe the logical implication of that sentence is backwards: it means most of the building will be used for Google Cloud as opposed to other Google products; it gives no information about how Google Cloud is distributed across Google offices, i.e. that building might be 100% GCloud but a minority of overall GCloud engineering.