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Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. Google file system was replaced by Colossus in 2010.
In computing, a distributed file system (DFS) or network file system is any file system that allows access from multiple hosts to files shared via a computer network. This makes it possible for multiple users on multiple machines to share files and storage resources.
Google I/O is Google's largest developer event, which is usually held in May at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View. Google Summer of Code is a mentoring program to find students for open source projects. In 2016, the program received nearly 18,980 applications. Google Code Jam is an international programming competition.
Though Chubby was designed as a lock service, it is now heavily used inside Google as a name server, supplanting DNS. [5] Apache ZooKeeper, which was created at Yahoo, is open-source software and can be used to perform distributed locks [6] as well. Etcd is open-source software, developed at CoreOS under the Apache License. [7]
Ghemawat's work at Google includes: Original design of Protocol Buffers, an open-source data interchange format. MapReduce, a system for large-scale data processing applications. Google File System, is a proprietary distributed file system developed to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware.
Sawzall is a procedural domain-specific programming language, used by Google to process large numbers of individual log records. Sawzall was first described in 2003, [1] and the szl runtime was open-sourced in August 2010. [2]
At Google, he developed Mondrian, a web-based code review system written in Python and used within the company. He named the software after the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. [20] He named Rietveld, another related software project, after Gerrit Rietveld, a Dutch designer. [21] On 7 December 2012, Van Rossum left Google. [22]
reStructuredText (RST, ReST, or reST) is a file format for textual data used primarily in the Python programming language community for technical documentation.. It is part of the Docutils project of the Python Doc-SIG (Documentation Special Interest Group), aimed at creating a set of tools for Python similar to Javadoc for Java or Plain Old Documentation (POD) for Perl.