How Google Routes Around Outages

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @08:20AM from the retrains-pigeons dept.

1sockchuck writes "Making changes to Google's search infrastructure is akin to 'changing the tires on a car while you're going at 60 down the freeway,' according to Urs Holzle, who oversees the company's massive data center operations. In a Q-and-A with Data Center Knowledge, Holzle discusses Google's infrastructure, how it has engineered its system to route around hardware failures, and how it responds when something goes awry. These updates usually go unnoticed, but during system maintenance last month a software bug triggered an outage for Gmail."

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nothing by mekon · 2009-03-25 08:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

dont waste time reading this, holzles core answer is: well, if there is a problem, we fix it. and after that, we analyse the reason. brilliant.

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Easy by Daimanta · 2009-03-25 08:43 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Google treats outages like damage and routs around it.

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Re:Simple, really... by neokushan · 2009-03-25 09:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Only because your mistake was NOT drugging the bitch.

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