Google File System II: Dawn of the Multiplying Master Nodes • The Register

Google File System II: Dawn of the Multiplying Master Nodes • The Register: "There are places in the design where we've tried to optimize for throughput by dumping thousands of operations into a queue and then just processing through them,' he continues. 'That leads to fine throughput, but it's not great for latency. You can easily get into situations where you might be stuck for seconds at a time in a queue just waiting to get to the head of the queue."