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> into what they call "cells" Google literally invented this concept, and it has been spread to other companies by Xooglers. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824
by dsl 8y ago
> into what they call "cells"
Google literally invented this concept, and it has been spread to other companies by Xooglers.
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/borg.pdf https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/borg.pdf
- ignoramous 8y ago> Google literally invented this concept Did they? Here's a summary of James Hamilton's paper (then a Microsoft employee) on building large-scale internet applications published in 2007, 8 years (?) before Borg was made public knowledge: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/12/on-designing-and-deploying-internet-scale-services/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/12/on-designing-and-deployi... Partition the system in such a way that partitions are infinitely adjustable and fine-grained, and not bounded by any real world entity (person, collection, customer, etc.). > it has been spread to other companies by Xooglers. https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1092849514229059585 https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1092849514229059585 I guess the notion that Google is an all-superior tech giant that faces unique problems and solves them in the best way possible is wide spread misplaced notion among Googlers?
- joshuamorton 8y agoI don't know about this case, it wouldn't surprise me either way. Borg is certainly old, probably pre 2008. The same story as Mr/Hadoop wouldn't surprise me.