Google’s Back-end Software
September 25, 2007 Code Monkey, Tech and Security No Comments
Lately, I’ve been reading some interesting papers from Google labs about their back-end file system, database, and algorithm framework. What I found most intriguing is the simplicity of their design. The software is highly specialized for their particular application… it follows the “do one thing and do it well” philosophy. It was nice to see that they correctly balanced simplicity against feature set.
