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The Google Way
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The Google Way

by Bernard Girard
April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 53m
English
No Starch Press
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Powerful Production Equipment

Lack of funds and lack of space helped the Google co-founders to build a unique, highly automated factory, using the latest means of distributed data processing. The entire Google network is based on a model for processing large data sets and dispatching tasks across a large cluster, using MapReduce and the Google File System.

MapReduce distributes tasks by running programs in parallel on a large cluster of commodity machines. The MapReduce system balances and manages program execution, allowing Google's programmers to utilize the resources of a large distributed system easily. According to Google, "a typical MapReduce computation processes many terabytes of data on thousands of machines."[85]

The Google File System ...

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