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The Google File System and the Architecture of Data at Web Scale

Google's 2003 File System paper described a distributed storage system designed around commodity-machine failures, enormous files, streaming reads, and append-heavy workloads, making failure handling and scale first-class properties of the file system rather than exceptional conditions.

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