Jeff Dean reveals Google secrets

Google never reported how many servers are working in its data centers and how they work. But here, at a recent conference , Jeff Dean , one of the engineers working in the company since 1999, made a presentation in which he said that he was developing a system for the automatic distribution of resources called Spanner .
The system allows you to dynamically allocate resources for data processing and is able to use from 1 to 10 million servers . At the same time, the cheapest option is chosen, which takes into account traffic and electricity.

I advise you to open the presentation (PDF), if you are interested in scalable systems, high load, clustering, data centers and parallel computing.

In addition, you can find there:

• A photo of one of Google's data centers
• Information about the infrastructure and configuration of the servers used
• Statistics about server crashes (2-4%) and disks (1-5%)
• Failure statistics for typical cluster nodes for the year
• Official confirmation of the use of Linux
• GFS details
• Magnificent table for timing from L1 cache to sending a package from California to the Netherlands and back
• Information about what BigTable is and how it works
• And of course, read about how Spanner will work.