When Google Seraching was growing they had a risk of Cost.
Imagine evey internet user using your site to find best results on the Internet, this site has lot of complex calculations, require huge amout of CPU Power and RAM, and Google started having nightmare that their company will be buried under the Infrasturcture cost.
Larry abd Sergey know that regular Infra won’t work from them, from day 1 they started using custom hardware, but now after several years that hardware was also not scaling, they needed a Genius and they wanted that genius to deliver something that world has never imagined, Infra that saves the cost when entire world is using that.
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Urs Hölzle, was founder of a startup acquired by sun microsystem and a professor at University of California, he earned his PHD from Stanford University.
When Larry and Sergey met Urs, they immidiately believed that he can save the Google and make it cost cost-effective Search Engine from Infra point of view
He led the design of Google data centers, which use half of the power of a regular data center. This was a huge achievement.
He did not lead only hardware but also software developments as well, he led the development of GWS, their own proprietary, highly scalable web server. Experts believe it’s one of the most scalable Web Servers in the world
He also suggested changes in Linux Google use
Urs is Employee number 8 in the Google, he was few of those people who made Google Serach Engine number 1 in the world
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