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danhontoday at 12:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

You mean like this?

"With limited funds, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin initially deployed this system of inexpensive, interconnected PCs to process many thousands of search requests per second from Google users. This hardware system reflected the Google search algorithm itself, which is based on tolerating multiple computer failures and optimizing around them. This production server was one of about thirty such racks in the first Google data center. Even though many of the installed PCs never worked and were difficult to repair, these racks provided Google with its first large-scale computing system and allowed the company to grow quickly and at minimal cost."

https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-computer-the-google...


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1970-01-01today at 1:48 AM

Google then had complete regret not doing this with ECC RAM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14206811

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ramraj07today at 1:59 AM

The problem they solved isn't easy. But its not some insane technical breakthrough either. Literally add redundancy, thats the ask. They didnt invent quantum computing to solve the issue did they? Why dunk on sprints?

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