{"id":10200,"date":"2013-05-15T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2013-05-15T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:31:43","slug":"how-twitter-rebuilt-googles-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10200","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter Rebuilt Google&#8217;s Secret Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Borg is a way of efficiently parceling work across Google\u2019s vast fleet of computer servers, and according to Wilkes, the system is so effective, it has probably saved Google the cost of building an extra data center. Yes, an entire data center. That may seem like something from another world \u2014 and in a way, it is \u2014 but the new-age hardware and software that Google builds to run its enormous online empire usually trickles down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2012\/08\/google-as-xerox-parc\/\">the rest of the web<\/a>. And Borg is no exception.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2013\/03\/google-borg-twitter-mesos\/\">Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google&#8217;s Secret Weapon | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Twitter, a small team of engineers has built a similar system using a software platform originally developed by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. Known as <a href=\"http:\/\/incubator.apache.org\/mesos\/\">Mesos<\/a>, this software platform is open source \u2014 meaning it\u2019s freely available to anyone \u2014 and it\u2019s gradually spreading to other operations as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borg is a way of efficiently parceling work across Google\u2019s vast fleet of computer servers, and according to Wilkes, the system is so effective, it has probably saved Google the cost of building an extra data center. Yes, an entire &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10200\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[361,423,260,684,350],"class_list":["post-10200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-distributed-computing","tag-google","tag-load-balancing","tag-software-architecture","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10201,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions\/10201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}