Google mocks Microsoft web services
An engineer from Google has been very critical of Microsoft technologies in the field of distributed computing infrastructure for web applications.
The little scandal happened at the Conference Structure 09 , which is dedicated to cloud computing. It all started with a speech by Najam Ahmad, General Manager, Microsoft Global Network Services. He described in detail how Microsoft is trying to increase the performance of many of its services. Like, the problem is in their huge number, so it is impossible to choose the settings so that all these services work equally effectively on the same platform. It is necessary to fragment the infrastructure, install different servers with different settings for individual applications, such as Messenger or Virtual Earth, and optimize them separately. He described in detail how carefully they now optimize Virtual Earth.
Immediately after this, Vijay Gill, a senior architect from Google, took the floor and, as they say, hedged the competitor in full.
Gill told you first how many times Google Maps is faster than Virtual Earth. And then he explained that the reason is in a fundamentally different approach to building a distributed platform. According to him, Microsoft does not have such a platform at all: “Any idiot can set up data centers and merge them together,” said Gill. “But the question is, how do applications really use this architecture?” How do you distribute it? How do you optimize? That is the difficulty. ”
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The secret of Google's success is not in secret data centers, but in the software infrastructure, which includes the distributed GFS file system, the BigTable distributed database and the MapReduce distributed computing subsystem. All services are based on this basis, and improvements in the speed of each of the underlying technologies will accelerate all Google services at once. This is a "horizontal" approach, which is fundamentally important.
For details, Vijay Gill sent everyone to the now famous document “The data center is a computer,” which can be found, as he said, even through Bing.
via The Register
The little scandal happened at the Conference Structure 09 , which is dedicated to cloud computing. It all started with a speech by Najam Ahmad, General Manager, Microsoft Global Network Services. He described in detail how Microsoft is trying to increase the performance of many of its services. Like, the problem is in their huge number, so it is impossible to choose the settings so that all these services work equally effectively on the same platform. It is necessary to fragment the infrastructure, install different servers with different settings for individual applications, such as Messenger or Virtual Earth, and optimize them separately. He described in detail how carefully they now optimize Virtual Earth.
Immediately after this, Vijay Gill, a senior architect from Google, took the floor and, as they say, hedged the competitor in full.
Gill told you first how many times Google Maps is faster than Virtual Earth. And then he explained that the reason is in a fundamentally different approach to building a distributed platform. According to him, Microsoft does not have such a platform at all: “Any idiot can set up data centers and merge them together,” said Gill. “But the question is, how do applications really use this architecture?” How do you distribute it? How do you optimize? That is the difficulty. ”
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The secret of Google's success is not in secret data centers, but in the software infrastructure, which includes the distributed GFS file system, the BigTable distributed database and the MapReduce distributed computing subsystem. All services are based on this basis, and improvements in the speed of each of the underlying technologies will accelerate all Google services at once. This is a "horizontal" approach, which is fundamentally important.
For details, Vijay Gill sent everyone to the now famous document “The data center is a computer,” which can be found, as he said, even through Bing.
via The Register
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/63135/
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