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derefr on June 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: An update on container support on Google Cloud Pla...

If docker images are fancy static binaries, then docker containers are fancy OS processes. Going through two billion OS PIDs in a week doesn't seem that hard.

martinp on June 10, 2014 [–]

Still seems like a lot, 2 billion a week is over 3300 every second. Says a lot about the scale at which Google operates.

planckscnst on June 10, 2014 | [–]

_The Datacenter as a Computer_ [1] is a free book written by Googlers that helps get your head around that scale.

[1] http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y2...

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