Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage

Re:Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage by dsl on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:38AM (#19397459)

> into what they call "cells"

Google literally invented this concept, and it has been spread to other companies by Xooglers.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/borg.pdf

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Re:Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage by ignoramous on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:38PM (#19404558)

> Google literally invented this concept

Did they?

Here's a summary of James Hamilton's paper (then a Microsoft employee) on building large-scale internet applications published in 2007, 8 years (?) before Borg was made public knowledge: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/12/on-designing-and-deployi...

   Partition the system in such a way that
   partitions are infinitely adjustable
   and fine-grained, and not bounded by any
   real world entity (person, collection,
   customer, etc.).

> it has been spread to other companies by Xooglers.

https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1092849514229059585 I guess the notion that Google is an all-superior tech giant that faces unique problems and solves them in the best way possible is wide spread misplaced notion among Googlers?

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Re:Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage by joshuamorton on Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:00AM (#19406557)

I don't know about this case, it wouldn't surprise me either way. Borg is certainly old, probably pre 2008. The same story as Mr/Hadoop wouldn't surprise me.

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