ESP – Product Engineering – Platform and Software Products

Microsoft (India) conducted the "VSTS 2010 Launch" session at the Infosys Bangalore campus this week to familiarize the software community with VSTS 2010 before the official launch (planned in April, 2010). The session included a keynote followed by an intensive hands-on demonstration of the various facilities that are on offer in the latest edition of Visual Studio Team System Suite. There were a number of features on demo, but what was of special importance was the support for the architect community in this release.

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The Google File System (GFS) is a scalable distributed file system designed and developed by Google for distributed data intensive applications. GFS was born out of the need to meet the rapidly growing data processing needs of Google. The design of the GFS shared many of the same goals (e.g. concurrency, scalability, availability and reliability) as previous distributed file systems, but differed from earlier file systems to meet the demands of application workloads and technological environment at Google. Almost a decade later, most of Google’s applications rely on GFS to store and process data. Although Google has not published the GFS code, the design of GFS is discussed in detail, in a paper (titled “The Google File System”) published by Google engineers. To explore more about the design of GFS, one needs to read the original paper present at http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html.

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A month ago, Google announced the release of Google Public DNS (Domain Name System), which is a free DNS resolution service. DNS is used to translate human friendly computer names into IP addresses. When a user types the name of a website, the Domain Name Servers convert this name into an IP address, and this IP address is used by your machine to send requests. A DNS network contains a set of servers which maintain a cache of domain name to IP address mappings. Usually these Domain Name Servers are maintained by your Internet Service Providers (ISP). With Public DNS service, Google wants to provide an alternative to your ISP’s service. Public DNS leverages the existing infrastructure used by Google’s search engine, which uses crawlers to scan through millions of websites. The DNS information cached by these web crawlers is used by Public DNS. Already a company by name Open DNS offers a similar popular DNS resolution service.

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