On the other hand, Dean seemingly thinks clusters of 1,800 servers are pretty routine, if not exactly ho-hum.

… that would mean Google has more than 200,000 servers, …

Co-founder Larry Page encourages a “healthy disrespect for the impossible” at Google

Dean described three core elements of Google’s software: GFS, the Google File System, BigTable, and the MapReduce algorithm.

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