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Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]

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Re: Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]

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Map of Google data centers: http://imgur.com/l1dDdQe Map of Facebook data centers and PoP: http://imgur.com/dek8ESX

I wonder what the reasons behind their similar distribution are.

One is surely the density of users, but maybe there are others related to the actual hosting, like cost, law or infrastructure.

Re: Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]

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Map of Google data centers: http://imgur.com/l1dDdQe Map of Facebook data centers and PoP: http://imgur.com/dek8ESX

Both Google and Facebook both have datacenters/PoPs in Taiwan? I can't imagine the 24mm people there justify it, and both services are either largely unused or blocked in the nearby PRC...

I'm more surprised that Google has no presence in Japan, though.

Re: Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]

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Map of Google data centers: http://imgur.com/l1dDdQe Map of Facebook data centers and PoP: http://imgur.com/dek8ESX

I wonder what the reasons behind their similar distribution are. One is surely the density of users, but maybe there are others related to the actual hosting, like cost, law or infrastructure.

infrastructure : electricity, roads, price of land, availability of workforce, water, temeprature, closeness to the backbones.

Add that to the density of users and the timing they expect. Once you factor all that, you end up with a limited amount of possibilities.

Re: Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]

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Map of Google data centers: http://imgur.com/l1dDdQe Map of Facebook data centers and PoP: http://imgur.com/dek8ESX

Both Google and Facebook both have datacenters/PoPs in Taiwan? I can't imagine the 24mm people there justify it, and both services are either largely unused or blocked in the nearby PRC... I'm more surprised that Google has no presence in Japan, though.

Google has an office in Tokyo but I guess not a datacenter.

Re: Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]

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Map of Google data centers: http://imgur.com/l1dDdQe Map of Facebook data centers and PoP: http://imgur.com/dek8ESX

Both Google and Facebook both have datacenters/PoPs in Taiwan? I can't imagine the 24mm people there justify it, and both services are either largely unused or blocked in the nearby PRC... I'm more surprised that Google has no presence in Japan, though.

They fixed that, at least for GCP. How the other Google bits fit into that, I do not know. They're planning to expand to a bunch of new regions this year.

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-pla...

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