mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2007 | google, development, testing, unit tests
The most prime marketing space at Google - The Toilet!
Quoted: It sounds obvious, but people work better when they’re involved in something they’re passionate about.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 21 2005 | Development, Google, Open Source
Quoted: Welcome to Google Code, Google's place for Open Source software
ShareViewed: 13 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 18 2005 | Development, Google
Quoted: Google has just released a set of components called Libjingle that allow third party applications to interact with Google Talk.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 17 2005 | Google, Search, Development, Cluster, Data Center
Jeff Dean, an engineer from Google Systems Lab, explains some of the inner workings of the Google system. Really interesting details on the Google File System (GFS), and the "MapReduce()" distributed architecture.
Google re-wrote the original PageRank algorithms using the new architecture, yielding much smaller code, and higher reliability and performance. Real rocket science stuff and one reason why Google really kicks ass.
ShareViewed: 12 Times- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 16 2005 | Google, Cluster, Data Center, Development
by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Older paper (written at Stanford) - but very detailed on layout of data storage, way the index is split, etc.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 12 2005 | Development, Web Services, Maps, Google, blogs
Google Maps has an API that enables third-party web developers to integrate their geographic data with the Google Maps UI. This blog talks about some of the more interesting applications being built on this mapping platform.
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