Putting Google's Network to work for You
Google for DevelopersCited 3× on HN, 2014-2016
23K views · 12 years ago · talk · dated
A seven-minute Google I/O 2014 talk by Simon Newton on how developers can make use of Google's global network. It describes the network's footprint and some of the services running on it.
HN commenters, including a Googler, cite it as the public explanation of how Google serves traffic, including DNS-based load balancing.
47:18OpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, Google
Open Networking Summit
47K views • 14 years ago
5:28Inside a Google data center
Google Workspace
22.6M views • 11 years ago
1:14:19NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet
Google TechTalks
41K views • 12 years ago
1:59:29Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking
NANOG
58K views • 9 years ago
1:01:39NYCBSDCon 2014: Serving one-third of the Internet via FreeBSD
BSDTV
14K views • 12 years ago
1:21:16A New Way to look at Networking
Google
52K views • 19 years ago
46:23High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake
PDX Node
1K views • 9 years ago
28:21T-Mobile's journey to IPv6
NANOG
1K views • 8 years ago
42:26AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets
Amazon Web Services
55K views • 11 years ago
47:51AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)
Amazon Web Services
70K views • 11 years ago
1:21:16A New Way to look at Networking
GoogleTalksArchive
26K views • 14 years ago
3:24:12Google Cloud Next '17 - Day 2 Keynote
Google Cloud Tech
49K views • 9 years ago
45:42Why did Netflix use NGINX and FreeBSD to build their own CDN? by Gleb Smirnoff
NGINX
40K views • 11 years ago
1:21:20A New Way to look at Networking
Google TechTalks
30K views • 19 years ago
25:18dotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one
dotconferences
7K views • 11 years ago
1:33:27AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton
Amazon Web Services
133K views • 9 years ago
1:22:45Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned
Stanford
257K views • 15 years ago
44:37Kubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & Demo
Perforce Puppet
153K views • 10 years ago
28:31Velocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation"
O'Reilly
9K views • 16 years ago
2:18:47GCP NEXT 2016: Day 1 Keynote (Mar 23)
Google Cloud Tech
52K views • 10 years ago
3 comments from Hacker News
I've only ever found two things publicly available on this. The patent related to DNS GSLB link and the video by Simon Newton which describes the global footprint and some of the services ▶ this video . Most of what I know about GSLB is from my time working at Google.
Disclaimer: not representing anybody, my opinion not anybody else's. I work at Google, and my team looks after this. Here: ▶ this video I can't tell you anything that's not in that video.
As others have mentioned this seems entirely expected based on how Google uses DNS for load balancing and serving your query from a datacenter as close to you as possible. If you want to see some details of how it works have a look at ▶ this video . Disclaimer: I work for Google. I speak for myself etc. blah.