Brazilian engineer Luiz Andre Barroso, who ripped up the rulebook at Google, has died. His radical concepts for knowledge facilities laid the foundations for cloud computing. Wired: Luiz Andre Barroso had by no means designed a knowledge middle earlier than Google requested him to do it within the early 2000s. By the point he completed his first, he had overturned many conventions of the computing business, laying the foundations for Silicon Valley’s improvement of cloud computing.
Barroso, a 22-year veteran of Google who unexpectedly died on September 16 at age 59, constructed his knowledge facilities with low-cost elements as an alternative of pricey specialised {hardware}. He reimagined how they labored collectively to develop the idea of “the information middle as a pc,” which now underpins the online, cellular apps, and different web companies.
Jen Fitzpatrick, senior vp of Google’s infrastructure group, says Barroso left an indelible imprint on the firm whose contributions to the business are numerous. “We misplaced a beloved buddy, colleague and revered chief,” she writes in a press release on behalf of the corporate.
