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Friction

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Amazon built its cloud with the same philosophy – they knew that at the scale they intended to pursue, everything would fail sooner rather than later, so automated failure detection and recovery had to be designed into the system.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

In 2003 and 2004 Google engineers released three groundbreaking papers: Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture, [4] The Google File System, [5] and MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. [6] And what happens when all that capitalized software (which, by the way, is an asset) vanishes?