Grokking the System Design Interview, Volume II
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Summary: GFS

We have covered the whole design now. Here is Google File System summarized: what it is, how the pieces fit together, and what makes it reliable.

Summary

  • What it is. GFS is a scalable, distributed file storage system built for large, data-intensive applications. It runs on commodity hardware to keep infrastructure costs down, and it was designed on the assumption that hardware failures are routine, not rare.
  • Workload. Reads are mostly large, streaming reads, with some small random reads mixed in

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