Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Google Scalability Session Report

In a blog post, Microsoft's Dare Obasanjo shared his notes on a session given by Jeff Dean from Google at the Google Seattle Conference on Scalability, "MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets". According to Dare, the talk covered the three main elements of Google's massively scalable architecture: GFS (the Google File System), MapReduce, an infrastructure capable of processing large datasets in parallel, and BigTable, Google's distributed store for structured data.

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