Alphabet Google: Server Envy
August 13, 2015
I know that Google has some nifty technology. But Amazon and Facebook have nifty technology too. My hunch is that the Alphabet Google thing has to come to grips with server envy. One indication of this is the write up “A Look Inside Google’s Data Center Networks.” The write explains that Google is or maybe was a pioneer. Now most of this early innovation was a result of Hewlett Packard’s Alta Vista stumble. The loss of balance tossed some under utilized real honest to goodness wizards into the Google dorm room. Jeff Dean, Simon Tong, and others (including a wizard who lives in a tree house. Well, that may be a Googlyth which is my word for a Google myth).
This write up rolls out some wonky Google terminology like Clos and Andromeda and makes clear that Google is, by golly, the leader in network datacenter stuff. The write up says for the benefit of those who worry about server envy:
our datacenter networks deliver unprecedented speed at the scale of entire buildings. They are built for modularity, constantly upgraded to meet the insatiable bandwidth demands of the latest generation of our servers. They are managed for availability, meeting the uptime requirements of some of the most demanding Internet services and customers. Most importantly, our datacenter networks are shared infrastructure. This means that the same networks that power all of Google’s internal infrastructure and services also power Google Cloud Platform. We are most excited about opening this capability up to developers across the world so that the next great Internet service or platform can leverage world-class network infrastructure without having to invent it.
Not quite A to Z but Amazon to Facebook should get the message.
Stephen E Arnold, August 13, 2015
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