Friday, April 23, 2004
A follow-up to the 1997 picture of Google's first servers... QuoteGoogle and Akamai: Cult of Secrecy vs. Kingdom of Openness
Instead of getting a few fast computers and running them to the max, Mayer explained at a recruiting event at MIT, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had to make do with hand-me-downs from Stanford’s computer science department. They would go to the loading dock to see who was getting new computers, then ask if they could have the old, obsolete machines that the new ones were replacing. Thus, from the very beginning, Brin and Page were forced to develop distributed algorithms that ran on a network of not-very-reliable machines.
 
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