This happens to be one of the better articles I’ve seen that lets out some of the details of Google’s datacenters and how stuff gets done.
As they say about halfway through, it’s a bit useful to have some CS background to understand the details. While I currently work on software pretty much entirely not datacenter-related, […]
Home prices fell at record pace in first quarter.
I think I mentioned a while back that Linda and I have been looking to purchase a house, off and on. We recently decided that we’d stick with our two-bedroom apartment for at least the time being, despite the fact that we’re going to have to do […]
As Linda says, we’re doing some spring cleaning. It’s partly to get ready for the baby, but we’re finding that there’s an awful lot of crap sitting around here taking up space. While I’m not quite ready to get rid of my collection of Google T-shirts (I did split them into ones I’ll wear vs. […]
Phun is one of the neatest random things I’ve seen come across my blogs in a while.
Not to sound like a crotchity old fart who’s been riding Moore’s law right on up the curve, but back when I was in high school, this sort of thing pretty much wasn’t even possible, at least not on […]