23K views · Jun 25, 2014 · 7:06 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2014–2016
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters, including a Googler, cite it as the public explanation of how Google serves traffic, including DNS-based load balancing.
“the video by Simon Newton which describes the global footprint and some of the services”HN comment, 2016
“If you want to see some details of how it works have a look at”
Details on how Google uses DNS for load balancing.
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.
“I can't tell you anything that's not in that video.”
Googler's pointer to public explanation of Google's serving infrastructure.
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.
“the video by Simon Newton which describes the global footprint and some of the services”
Describes Google's global footprint and some services.
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.
