Talk

Many applications at Google are structured with data stored in a transactional database (source of truth) and same data being required by servers distributed worldwide. For efficient and fast computation servers store this data in memory. Further, the database is changing continuously and we need to update the in-memory view of these large number of servers in real-time. For example, in Google Search Ads application we have Advertisers configuration stored in a database and this data is loaded in the memory of various servers to compute Ads in a scalable and fast way. In this talk, we describe our solution to this data distribution problem and the challenges that we encountered in providing a highly reliable and low latency service.