From the BrianStorms weblog, I found this talk given by Urs Hölzle on the infrastructure, commodity hardware, and distributed software used by Google to support its many services. I enjoyed learning about how Google works and what goes on behind the scenes when a user submits a query. Hölzle also gives an overview of the programming framework that is made available to Google’s data mining engineers.
- Google: A Computer Scientist’s Playground (Streamed RealVideo, 60 min)