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		mrry on June 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Google Stack [pdf] Malte Schwarzkopf is the first author of the Omega paper: http://eurosys2013.tudos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/paper/S... ...so not entirely blind.

thrownaway2424 on June 4, 2015 [–]

One of the reasons Omega failed was because its authors went up in an ivory tower and ignored everything about what was actually happening in Google datacenters for years. That a diagram this full of WTF could be produced by one of the Omega authors does not surprise me.

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