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Google would argue with you. They roll a heterogenous server setup intentionally to minimize impact from hardware faults, bugs, etc. You build your software a

by mrtron 16y ago

Google would argue with you. They roll a heterogenous server setup intentionally to minimize impact from hardware faults, bugs, etc. You build your software at a high level where the hardware under is abstracted away.

gaius 16y ago
Google's experience is only directly transferrable if you too are a search engine.
- mkr-hn 16y ago
  They do a lot more than search, and as far as I know App Engine runs on the same distributed system.
  - gaius 16y ago
    OK, but is your workload like App Engine either? I can tell you right now that mine isn't; we'd grind to a halt if we tried to pass and share as much state as we do on it.