David wrote: > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-we-learned-from-1-million.html
Of course this should be distrusted, since it's not coming from a third party and as such servers as company propaganda. They'd surely not say anything which could harm their business in any significant way. I like this quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability "Paradoxically, adding more components to an overall system design can actually undermine efforts to achieve high availability. That's because complex systems inherently have more potential failure points and are more difficult to implement correctly. The most highly available systems hew to a simple design pattern: a single, high quality, multi-purpose physical system with comprehensive internal redundancy running all interdependent functions paired with a second, like system at a separate physical location." Two mainframes with everything hotswap at two different locations comes to mind. :-) I believe what google suffers from is the complexity issue. There whole intertwined email system (linked with searching, ads, chatting etc.), cloud computing. I can just see it crashing and burning badly at some point. Especially if the company inevitably collapses a bit, or has to downsize. Regards, Jeroen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
