I have an idea what you're talking about, because I worked with the YT folks to reduce their Colossus costs and on Google storage in general until 2015. Another

I have an idea what you're talking about, because I worked with the YT folks to reduce their Colossus costs and on Google storage in general until 2015. Another humbling and iluminating experience was comparing the Borg resources in the main crawling/indexing cluster to the Top500 list of the same period, something that always comes to mind and makes my eyes go wide when people compare DDG to Google. Or the day when a colleague taped a page saying only ”1E” next to our cubicle because we had just reached that much storage across the fleet.