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[ILUG] Google "behind the scenes" tech talk

[ILUG] Google "behind the scenes" tech talk

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Tue Nov 16 14:38:19 GMT 2004


On 16 Nov 2004, at 14:34, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Gosh - and I thought Google employed smart engineers. A well designed 
> system of google's size at any given moment would surely have more 
> than enough machines?

What?  Depreciation, man!  Haven't you ever heard of JIT?

	Colm (tongue very much in cheek, just in case anyone's wondering)

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Colm Buckley / colm at tuatha.org / www.colm.buckley.name / +353 87 2469146




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