Tech Presentations

Google TechTalks presentation by Narayanan Shivakumar, Google Inc. at (video) on May 31, 2006

Interesrting presentation outlining major parts of infrastructure used by Google to run all it’s projects on.

These are main infrastructure system used at Google:

• GFS - Google file system (1+ PB, 1000+ machines, 1000+ clients, 10 Gb IO)
• MapReduce - distributed computation system using MapReduce programming model
• BigTable - distributed structured storage system

P.S. slides are not seen that good unfortunately so you’ll have to listen patiently.

Google TechTalk by Mark Shuttleworth on November 9, 2006 at Ubuntu Linux Development Summit. (video)
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Not really about technologies, but about organisational infrastructure of Open Source software project.

Interesting notes (not necessarily quotes):

• Open Source is new economics, culture, new way of producing software (Ubuntu is different from RedHat and Novell)
• Open community - because company is distributed, most of the employees work from home.
• Launchpad.net - community software development site knowing about other Open Source prohect developments (Apache, for example, being important part of Ununtu distribution), bugs, translations, source control, etc.
• Desktop will kick in when Dell will choose chip vendor (from vendors with the same price) based on their Linux drivers.
• “Kernel guys live on the tip - they’re not concerned about older systems.” (meaning that it’s fine for servers but bad for desktops)
• Check Google trends for Ubuntu