Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public

Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by Imnimo on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:10PM (#29083301)

What I don't get is why they wouldn't just use MongoDB. MongoDB is web-scale.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by nostrademons on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:03PM (#29084044)

That was a major impetus for this video, IIRC. The "MongoDB is web-scale" video went around Google about a month before Broccoli Man and some enterprising Googler figured they could use the same software to make a satire of Google's internal tools.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by fragmede on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:21PM (#29084336)

MongoDB is web-scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

NSFWish; it gets a bit personal around 3:11

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by alexjplant on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @04:16PM (#29086826)

I had a similar conversation with a heavily-intoxicated MongoDB sales guy in a diner at 1AM after the second day of KubeCon 2019. My concerns were primarily around data consistency issues during denormalization and lack of schema. H pitch was essentially "Who cares?! I'm getting [three-letter agency] to move _everything_ to Mongo because it's so cheap and easy! It's all just JSON! Why does it need a schema?!"

He probably made more than I did that year so maybe he has a point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by mlindner on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:47PM (#29084782)

I miss 2010.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by vinay_ys on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:01PM (#29085035)

Ah, 2010 - when web scale and its secret sauce – sharding was all the rage.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by hedgehog on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:16PM (#29084275)

Link for the Mongo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

And bonus lean startup video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9KhpgYVB0

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by hinkley on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:14PM (#29084233)

/dev/null is also web-scale

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by DeepYogurt on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:22PM (#29084359)

Is /dev/null fast? I will use /dev/null if it is fast.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by flatiron on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:37PM (#29084600)

does it support sharding?

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by closeparen on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:55PM (#29084934)

It supports sharting: https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by sondr3 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:54PM (#29084916)

And available as a SaaS: https://devnull-as-a-service.com/

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by 323 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:06PM (#29084100)

But is it planet-scale?

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by swalsh on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:16PM (#29084264)

That's out of date, we're now in the days of IPFS.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by vorticalbox on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:04PM (#29084068)

Maybe because mongodb had been out less than a year in 2010?

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by gnabgib on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:08PM (#29084123)

I think you missed the /s from GP.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by vorticalbox on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:55PM (#29084929)

quite likily.

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