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Re:Design Lessons & Advice from Building Large Scale Distrib... by xal on Saturday October 17, 2009 @01:28PM (#887174)
It's funny. All these abstractions build on top of each other to provide fault tolerant failover at google scale and we are coming full circle back to the file system metaphor.

Finally :-)

Re:Design Lessons & Advice from Building Large Scale Distrib... by kls on Saturday October 17, 2009 @02:55PM (#887264)
If there is something that I have seen come to pass time and time again in technology, is that, the old becomes new again. You can literally make a fortune on identify the next big thing and then implement an old idea on top of it. Look at mobile, we started out with simple systems that took assembly or C (Newton, Palm) and graduated to Java and now we are seeing the latest platform move to web technologies. Take any facet of technology and you can draw a parallel to legacy technology.