J. Yaghob (Ed.): ITAT 2015 p. 1 Charles University in Prague, Prague, 2015 Building a Computer System for the World’s Information Zbyněk Falt Google Zürich, Switzerland Abstract: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s in- formation and make it universally accessible and useful. Obviously, Google has to deal with many problems to suc- cessfully fulfill such mission. The talk will address some of these problems with particular emphasis on the issues regarding efficient and scalable information storage, pro- cessing, and querying. The first part of the talk will be focused on the comput- ing platforms used at Google and its hardware design phi- losophy. We will also explain why it could be beneficial to build warehouse-scale computer facilities using commod- ity components instead of enterprise components, which Zbyněk Falt (born in 1985) graduated at the Charles are more reliable. University in Prague in 2010. He continued his studies The second part will focus on the software infrastruc- at the Charles University and obtained Ph.D. degree in ture. We will describe the architecture of Google filesys- Software Systems in 2014. His research area was paral- tem, BigTable data storage, Chubby lock service, and the lel computing and its optimization for modern hardware. MapReduce framework. Finally, we will demonstrate how Since 2014 he works in Google Zürich as a software engi- are these technologies combined when solving real-life neer in the Search Infrastructure team. problems.