Archive for October, 2007

Inside Google: High Availability through Load Balancing

Today was the first day of the Open Source event “I Fórum Software Livre” here in Portugal.

The session I was most eager to attend was Fernanda Weiden’s about Load Balancing.

She’s Brazilian by birth but works at Google in Switzerland where she’s responsible for the Load Balancing solution.

I had the chance to ask her some questions at the session and some more after and not only she’s very technical savy she’s also very pretty and friendly.

Too bad she brought her boyfriend with her :>

Honestly I was expecting some in house bred solution, but apparently Google uses standard and available open source apps for their Load Balancing solution.

I’m hoping the session slides that have specific details will be available soon so I’ll update when that happens.