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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Google Operations VP Talks Of "Shards" & Other Search Architecture Details:
"An InternetNews.com article named Peeking Into Google has Google's VP of operations and engineering giving us insight into Google's architecture. The article covers Google's hardware, the operating system on that hardware, and the auto-healing technology used on Google's servers. Also, the article describes how Google stores the data on the machines, and the action Google takes when a query is submitted. As you continue reading through the article, you also learn where the snippet of content comes from on the search results page and that search result page is then stored into memory. The Google VP also discusses the 'Google File System', 'Map/Reduce Framework' and 'Global Work Queue' and each of its respective responsibilities.

Here are some key points from the article;..."

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