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The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean

The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean.

Covers what Google, Hadoop DFS, Amazon and Microsoft solutions. It’s a lot like cache design- considerations include size of data, frequency of reads vs. writes. I think is the hardest engineering challenge is avoiding a single point of failure and making the system truly distributed while maintaining coherency in a low overhead and timely manner.