- This doesn’t mean ‘bots are writing code. But they are generating a lot of the data and configuration files needed to run the company’s software. “You need to make a concerted effort to maintain code health,” Potvin says. “And this is not just humans maintaining code health, but robots too.”
- Piper spans about 85 terabytes of data (aka 85,000 gigabytes), and Google’s 25,000 engineers make about 45,000 commits (changes) to the repository each day.
The article really highlights well how much times have changed in terms of software, and hardware. I mean you always read about how the astronauts were using computers with less processing power than modern-day cellphones. I have about 3 TB on board, and then 2 TB external. Internet speeds, hard drive capacity, RAM, and such have all dramatically increased with time. I shudder to think of the monstrous powerhouses of the future
My anecdote here is power system simulations. Twenty years ago a three second time domain simulation would take hours; engineers would leave them to run overnight. What used to take two hours of computer time for one second of results is now about 40 seconds of computer time. Instead of running overnight I now have results in less time than it takes to get a cup of coffee.I shudder to think of the monstrous powerhouses of the future
The title is a bit misleading - it's not in one physical place, it's in one code repository. Considering Google offices are in major earthquake territory I'd hope they are pretty decentralized.According to Potvin, the system spans 10 different Google data centers.
I'm really curious about this. So a lot of people have android phones. If Google went down and your phone couldn't authenticate with Google sign in, I think most people would lose the ability to log into their phone. You could still use the phone without an account, but you would lose your phone book and message history. This isn't a big deal to you without a Google phone, but friends and family who do would be cut off from their devices. Also, more and more business and personal emails are gmail, so those would be right out and I guarantee some company that you work with relies heavily on google apps and a google failure would be catastrophic. There's the entire elderly generation who think Google is the internet, so I wonder what they would do if it blipped off the map. There's also the sites that use Google as their search. I wonder how much Google going offline would affect you, even if you don't use Google services yourself.
Holy shit.Google’s 25,000 engineers make about 45,000 commits (changes) to the repository each day.