Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google’s server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on how you look at it) to be quickly crunched.
Google Software Engineer on Google Images
I’ve asked Google some questions in regards to their image search engine. Here are the answers by Radhika Malpani, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google.
Firefox Engineer On Memory Leaks
An explanation about Firefox’s apparently excessive usage of memory in installations of Firefox 1.5 has been posted by one of the project’s lead engineers.
When is a Software Engineer Not a Software Engineer?
The title of “software engineer” has got to be among the most highly abused in the corporate high-tech world. It’s also one of the most popular.