[angrygoat]

Alexander Yee's writeup is interesting – CPU utilisation was only about 12%, they encountered quite nasty I/O bottlenecks (particularly for writes.)

http://www.numberworld.org/blogs/2019_3_14_pi_record/

Contradicts the Google blog a little, especially where he points out that they hit performance issues with live migration (Google said it worked fine without impact on the application.)

[bluedino]

He's also the author of one of the most famous Stack Overflow answers of all time, 'Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?'

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902/1760335