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Re:Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page by Artemis2 on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:36PM (#14370876)
Can you tell what SFFE means? GFE is the Google Front End but I can't find much about SFFE.
Re:Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page by mh- on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:53PM (#14370996)
fairly sure it just stands for "staticfile frontend".. nothing too exciting.

edit: some support for that at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=548688...

  /bns/pe/borg/pe/bns/static-on-bigtable/staticfile.frontend.sffe/93
Re:Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page by rachelbythebay on Thursday May 18, 2017 @08:14PM (#14372111)
So if you just want to serve 5 TB... there you go.
Re:Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page by slashcrypto on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:41PM (#14370914)
Would be very interesting to know what SFFE means ;)
Re:Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page by SparkyMcUnicorn on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:53PM (#14370998)
I'm pretty certain it's a server name.

It's a similar convention as some of their other names such as GRFE (Groups), bsfe (Blog Search Front-End).

https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/googles-server-nam...

Re:Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page by CiPHPerCoder on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:53PM (#14370997)
Static File Front-End?
Re:Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page by puzzle on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:00PM (#14371051)
The hostname is static.corp and the service is static-on-bigtable, so...