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| | Simon Willison: What is Google? |
 | | Google has taken the last 10 years of systems software research out of university labs, and built their own proprietary, production quality system. |
 | | What I'm trying to say is if Google have invested in building what seems to be a scaleable networked operating system, implementing scalability at an "application layer" doesn't seem to make sense, when the underlying "operating system" already has (probably a better) a means to do it. |
 | | Google's GFS expects the failure of most components, including CPUs, memorys, disks, systems, etc--and in google's case nothing has to be replaced. |
| simon.incutio.com /archive/2004/04/05/whatIsGoogle (559 words) |
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