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Slight correction, you can't run tools aimed for Google levels of complexity because Google doesn't release the tools they use to handle their scale. They don't
by vinceguidry 4y ago
Slight correction, you can't run tools aimed for Google levels of complexity because Google doesn't release the tools they use to handle their scale. They don't use k8s to manage their infrastructure, they use Borg. K8s doesn't scale to Google's needs. Also, nobody's running at Google scale.
- hinkley 4y agoAnd nobody should be. We’ve talked many times before about how ridiculous their amount of hardware is. There are really only two arguments for “why” that make sense to me: One, they are succeeding in spite of a very large degree of excess hardware. Two, all that hardware is about advertising. Schadenfreude wants it to be #1, but I suspect it’s actually #2. And I hope that some day - soon - “overtracking your users” becomes a hot button topic in consumer safety, maybe not as serious as industrial pollution but pretty close.