{"id":219,"date":"2009-11-03T17:26:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daverowe.wpengine.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-11-03T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T23:14:07","slug":"notes-on-foundation-of-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daverowe.net\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Foundation of Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

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10 years ago (1999-2000)
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University of Samford (Stanford)
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Web Search
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Larry and Serge
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Goals
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  1. Increasing the quality of results
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  2. Simple Interface (Has followed the history of Google products)
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  3. Speed
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    Today
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    1. Over 1 billion searches a day
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    2. Highly distributed – Over 50% of queries do not come from the US
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    3. Customers expect response time of \u00bc of a second. (2.5x the speed of a blink)
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    4. Queries Change Quickly. 20% of queries change every 90 days
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    5. The amount of data being updated on the web was significant. 10-20% of content changes every time they complete a query. Caching not as beneficial.
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    6. \n
      Index every 4 hours of the data stored. Data is about the size of the Library of Congress
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    7. Google Calendar alone – Over 1 million emails and SMS a day
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      70% of emails are spam. Less than 1% SPAM makes it into inbox
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    9. Scalability and Reliability – Because they had no money and therefore had to use cheap components that failed often, they had to build fault-tolerance and HA in the infrastructure.
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    10. Power-Consumption \u2013 Cut down on power consumption with regards to load-balancing
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      Gartner
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      • Google is the leader of scalable infrastructure.
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      • Among the largest \u2013 10% of all processing power that exists in the world.
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        Innovation
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        • Employees can spend 20% of their time on anything that aligns with the strategies of the company.
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        • New ideas, features, etc.
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        • Gmail, Docs, Flight Simulator, Internal systems (Google News)
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        • All new releases are initially used internally and provide feedback
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        • Employees can focus on core development and don’t have to worry about every aspect (HA, backup, recovery, etc.)
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          Very Complex Hardware solution with software on top that masks the complexity of the HW.
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          • Big Tables
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          • Map Reduce
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          • All apps were not designed to go into the Enterprise market
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            Beginning of 2007
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            • Google realized that they apps were running their company internally and therefore could be useful to other companies.
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            • They had the capacity to support other Enterprises
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            • “Most innovation that happens in the world happens in the consumer space.”
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