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I think the Google engineer that, years ago, missed a flight connection to write a MapReduce from the airport that restored corrupted data is perhaps a step or

• PascLeRasc 9y ago
  That sounds interesting but from searching around I can't find anything about that, do you have a link?
  • puzzle 9y ago
    It was a decade or more ago; I'm not sure there are links out there. Although legendary internally, there's at least one more recent and more epic MapReduce-based story. In order to fully understand it, though, you'd need to reveal details about search infrastructure.