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Ari Shamash spent sixteen years at Google. For part of it he managed the Zanzibar team, which means he is a large part of the reason anyone outside Google knows Zanzibar exists: the paper came out on his watch, and it did not come easily.
He is blunt about how the system got built. "It's not like we had a magic wand or some divine intuition. Standard engineering applies." A large problem, no idea how to solve it, lots of trials, most of them failures, and occasionally a nugget worth chasing. Jake pushes back that Google scale from…
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