This post made the rounds recently when reporters got a hold of it. "Millions! Millions of googles! Compute!" It's basically meaningless. They start off wi

This post made the rounds recently when reporters got a hold of it. "Millions! Millions of googles! Compute!" It's basically meaningless. They start off with C10k which is about handling 10k concurrent clients on one machine, then they go on to say "a million requests on our cloud!" (which they later mention is a 64-server virtual load balancer cluster pointing to 200 backend virtual thingamajiggers) But, like, Eurovision. Totally. While I'm yelling at them: your problem isn't nobody knows about your performance. Your problem is nobody knows what google Compute Engine is. Is it an EC2 competitor? Is it one of those things you have where you give it data, a query, and you crunch the numbers for the client? Google means well, but here they suffer from their typical "we know it, so why don't you know it?" style without much useful intro material (which tends to get written by fans, which Google Compute Load Balancer Data Ingestion doesn't have). </rant>