Bigtable
product on 8 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes · said 39 times in 20 episodes since 2013
the MAD Podcast 21 
the a16z Podcast 5 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 4 
Acquired 3 
All-In 3 
20VC 2 
TBPN 1 
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Vahdat: Google estimated Bigtable to Spanner migration required 7,000 staff-years
“The estimate for doing that migration for Google was seven staffed millennia.”
Jeff Dean built AdWords, AdSense, MapReduce, and Gemini
“He also implemented the first version of AdWords, built AdSense, rewrote the core search pipeline five times, co-invented and implemented Bigtable MapReduce, TensorFlow, and Gemini.”
Schillace: Writely originally ran on C# on three rented Windows servers
“We started off, in, in C Sharp, which is little known, in, you know, our own, there's, like, pre-cloud, so we, like, had three file servers that we rented that were Windows machines in a data center in Texas with a sysadmin in the Philippines running them. So …”
Kimball: Google's Bigtable spawned the entire NoSQL movement
“They built first big table, which really spawned the entire NoSQL movement that's with us today.”