High-Availability at Massive Scale: Building Google’s Data Infrastructure for Ads
Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real Time Enterprise (BIRTE), Springer (2015) (to appear)
Abstract
Google’s Ads Data Infrastructure systems run the multi-
billion dollar ads business at Google. High availability and strong consistency are critical for these systems. While most distributed systems
handle machine-level failures well, handling datacenter-level failures is
less common. In our experience, handling datacenter-level failures is critical for running true high availability systems. Most of our systems (e.g.
Photon, F1, Mesa) now support multi-homing as a fundamental design property. Multi-homed systems run live in multiple datacenters all the time, adaptively moving load between datacenters, with the ability to handle outages of any scale completely transparently.
This paper focuses primarily on stream processing systems, and describes our general approaches for building high availability multi-homed systems, discusses common challenges and solutions, and shares what we
have learned in building and running these large-scale systems for over ten years.
billion dollar ads business at Google. High availability and strong consistency are critical for these systems. While most distributed systems
handle machine-level failures well, handling datacenter-level failures is
less common. In our experience, handling datacenter-level failures is critical for running true high availability systems. Most of our systems (e.g.
Photon, F1, Mesa) now support multi-homing as a fundamental design property. Multi-homed systems run live in multiple datacenters all the time, adaptively moving load between datacenters, with the ability to handle outages of any scale completely transparently.
This paper focuses primarily on stream processing systems, and describes our general approaches for building high availability multi-homed systems, discusses common challenges and solutions, and shares what we
have learned in building and running these large-scale systems for over ten years.
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