> I can’t imagine how Kyle Vogt acquired the necessary knowledge to make this work.
By this point in history, it wasn’t just him anymore and we’d done a few rounds of improvements already out of necessity. As I recall, he got us up and running at PAIX based mostly on research, but most of the other data centers were built out by a network engineer(1) we hired away from YouTube.
While he was working on the network engineering and keeping the original system afloat, I did a lot of the software work for the system described here.
I really should thank you for the opportunity— not many people would let a new college hire spend months on a green-field rewrite of something so core to the company.
By this point in history, it wasn’t just him anymore and we’d done a few rounds of improvements already out of necessity. As I recall, he got us up and running at PAIX based mostly on research, but most of the other data centers were built out by a network engineer(1) we hired away from YouTube.
While he was working on the network engineering and keeping the original system afloat, I did a lot of the software work for the system described here.
(1) Name withheld out of courtesy