(2004-04-12) Skrenta Google Scaling

Rick Skrenta on Google's scaling architecture. Google has 100,000 servers.... Google is a company that has built a single very large, custom computer. It's running their own cluster operating system. They make their big computer even bigger and faster each month, while lowering the cost of CPU cycles. It's looking more like a general purpose platform than a cluster optimized for a single application.

An earlier piece of his talks about using huge amounts of RAM (Cheap Memory). This means that Google is currently storing multiple copies of the entire web in RAM.