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Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’
Facebook has built a software platform called Prism that can juggle data across data centers spanning the globe. And at some point, it plans to open source this mystery creation, sharing it with...
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Google Spans Entire Planet With GPS-Powered Database
Three years ago, a top Google engineer named Vijay Gill was asked what he would do if someone gave him a magic wand. Gill hesitated before answering. And when he did answer, he was coy. But he seemed...
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Man Busts Out of Google, Rebuilds Top-Secret Query Machine
You can think of Google as the research lab for the rest of the internet. Every so often, the company releases a research paper describing one of the sweeping software platforms that help drive its...
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Bread Baker Frees Software Secrets From Google Empire
After leaving Google and his job building software in the engine room of the web's largest empire, Marcel Konacker took a little break. He spent two weeks baking bread. The post Bread Baker Frees...
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Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth
Much like the engineering team that created it, Google Spanner is something that stretches across the globe while behaving as if it's all in one place. Unveiled this fall after years of hints and...
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Ex-Facebookers Feed Zuck’s Code Into New Data Revolution
Nikita Shamgunov and Eric Frenkiel first met during Facebook bootcamp. Like every other new engineer hired by the company, they spent eight weeks in the hacker equivalent of Parris Island, fixing bug...
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