Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers

jfruh writes: In the mid-'00s, as Google scaled up its data centers to meet increasing demand, "we could not buy, for any price, a data-center network that would meet the requirements of our distributed systems," says Amin Vahdat, the company's networking technical lead. So they had to build their own software-defined networks inside what were essentially vast warehouse-sized computers. And now the company is starting to tell the world how they did it.

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And you all still don't need it

[magamiako1]

Right now there's a massive push for even the smallest web projects to be "cloud scale" to this degree. No, the crazy custom shit that Google does in their datacenter is not something you need in YOUR datacenter.

Re:F-ing Slashdot

[TheGratefulNet]

'share' is one thing I have filtered on ALL sites.

'social' is another. if your url has that string in it, it gets to the dev/null device.

I have zero patience for 'social networking' whores. it sucks I have to spend the first 5 minutes on any new site filtering and adding block entries to ABP and noscript but since its war, this is what we have to do to tame the (already messed up) internet.

and if a site can't show its conent in the first few minutes of my configuring filters, I just leave and never come back.

soon, slash will be that way for me. I've been here for a long time, but I can see it will end, probably this year.

fuck you, dice. just fuck you. sad how it ends like this.

WTF???

[djbckr]

Why the fuck are you fucking around with the /. UI? Do you have to change things for change's sake? If it works, stop changing it!

Please bring back "Read more"

[itsenrique]

I promise I won't accidentally share a story over social media instead of clicking "Read more", no dice Dice.