Luiz called large meetings "all-heads" instead of "all-hands" meetings. "Why? Because we're not sailors!"
I never got to interact with him directly but he was a leader worth following. This is a sad day.
Luiz André Barroso has died
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#12Sad to see another great guy go away too early :(
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#13from https://www.barroso.org/ "February, 2023: I have released the album Before Bossa, alongside two fantastic jazz musicians, Zeca Assumpção and Sergio Reze. It features a selection of Brazilian and American Jazz tunes that inspired the creators of the Bossa Nova musical style."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f0BYADR7B0&list=OLAK5uy_mVO...
Luiz Barroso - Before Bossa (feat. Sergio Reze & Zeca Assumpção)
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#14https://research.google/people/LuizBarroso/ https://www.barroso.org/
"The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines" (3rd Edition) (2018) https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Datacenter+as+a+Computer... https://books.google.com/books?id=b951DwAAQBAJ
Also the co-author of The Tail at Scale, one of the more interesting papers on web-scale architecture that I've read: https://research.google/pubs/pub40801/
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#15> “Wait, wait, wait, but why are we doing it this way?” Barroso said on the podcast. “And it just turns out that the people who had been living in that area hadn't really thought about questioning that. And sometimes it's something that was based on a good reason three years ago, and that reason had a sell-by date, and it's time to do something else.” This is a very humane way of thinking about the mindset of people…
It's the other side of Chesterton's Fence: When you do understand why the fence was put there, you can remove it.
Too often people turn Chesterton's Fence into Frost's Fence: "Good fences make good neighbors" and refuse to think beyond that.
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#16"By customizing nearly every inch of Google’s data centers and the hardware within them, including power supplies and cooling kits"
This is the second time i hear about a company building its own power supply, the first being apple for the apple 1.
As i know "nothing" about electricicty, i wonder : isn't power supply a solved issue at this point ? What could have they done differently that justify having its own production line for a power supply ?
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#17Luiz was one of the smartest, kindest people you could have ever met. He was the kind of person you'd have been proud to call your friend. If you are ever looking for someone to aspire to as a software engineer, you should aspire to be like Luiz.
> If you are ever looking for someone to aspire to as a software engineer, you should aspire to be like Luiz.
This a million times.
I only interacted with Luiz a few times. They were eye-opening. He was so bright and, at the same time, so kind and supportive!
My team has improved some algorithms he and Jeff Dean popularized. When we presented to him, he asked us excellent questions. But, even though he was far up in our management chain, we never felt attacked nor judged, rather supported and empowered. I told my friend that it felt almost like talking to my grandfather when I was a young boy.
I also really appreciate some of his documents. They dealt with fairly general/philosophical topics (on the nature of software). They were so succinct and yet ... so deep and far-reaching! They left a long-lasting effect on me.
I admired Luiz's ability to connect with others. He showed me how not all truly smart people need to make a display of it.
I'm truly sad he died. And just after Bram...
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#18"By customizing nearly every inch of Google’s data centers and the hardware within them, including power supplies and cooling kits" This is the second time i hear about a company building its own power supply, the first being apple for the apple 1. As i know "nothing" about electricicty, i wonder : isn't power supply a solved issue at this point ? What could have they done differently that justify having its own prod…
Reliable, cheap, and available in high number power supplies are surprisingly hard to come by.
Delta makes tons of money on satisfying the "reliable, and available" points, but not the "cheap" one.
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#19"By customizing nearly every inch of Google’s data centers and the hardware within them, including power supplies and cooling kits" This is the second time i hear about a company building its own power supply, the first being apple for the apple 1. As i know "nothing" about electricicty, i wonder : isn't power supply a solved issue at this point ? What could have they done differently that justify having its own prod…
Have it hyperoptimised for your precise operating conditions?
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#20"By customizing nearly every inch of Google’s data centers and the hardware within them, including power supplies and cooling kits" This is the second time i hear about a company building its own power supply, the first being apple for the apple 1. As i know "nothing" about electricicty, i wonder : isn't power supply a solved issue at this point ? What could have they done differently that justify having its own prod…
In the early days of Google, that would have been getting rid of the expensive, building- or cluster-wide UPS and adding batteries to the power supplies. Later, they switched to a rack-level UPS.