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Ben Gilbert: belief

30 Jun 2025 Acquired Google Part I: Origins of Search

“Absolutely. And we’re designing our own file systems with GFS, or I think we’ll talk about a lot of it in the next episode, but very real system-level software that is pioneering.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
30 Jun 2025
Publisher
Acquired

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…And that hardware stuff shifted from, ooh, we’re being really entrepreneurial (shall we say) and how we use commodity hardware cheaply, to oh, we’re designing our own data centers. Absolutely. And we’re designing our own file systems with GFS, or I think we’ll talk about a lot of it in the next episode, but very real system-level software that is pioneering. Bigtable, MapReduce, et cetera.…

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