Google Infrastructure
It's All Greek
"DITA"
Clouds
"Goo"gle
400

In 2004, Jeff Dean published this game-changing algorithm for processing parallelizable problems across large datasets using a large number of machines.

What is MapReduce?

400

A ship's captain would probably need to read the manual before they start configuring this system to automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

What is Kubernetes?

400

It describes something based on genetic factors or inheritance.

What is "hereDITAry"?

400

Daily Double!

A luminous cloud, or a halo around a holy person.

400

What distinguished this Disney character from others in a 1932 cartoon was not his looks, but his laugh.

Who is GOOfy?

800

You might find Dorothy and Toto in this global, highly-available, low-latency key-value storage service.

What is Kansas?

800

This codename for our Cloud Console refers to the inhabitants of Mt. Olympus.

What is "Pantheon"? 

800

This famous Alaskan dogsled race started in 1973.

What is the "iDITArod"?

800

The Orb wrote a famous song about these “Little Puffy Clouds”.

What is “cumulus”?

800

This web-footed swimming bird has a longer neck & longer legs than a duck.

What is a GOOse?

1200

Beware of assimilation by this massively scaled cluster management system.

What is Borg?

1200

This hybrid app modernization platform is causing our enterprise business to blossom.

What is Anthos?
1200

It's a common mindfulness practice.

What is "meDITAtion"? 

1200

These thunderclouds are likely to rain on your parade.

What is “cumulo-nimbus”?

1200

You might find this shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water.

What is a "lagoon"?

1600

Daily Double

This canonical service for user, group, and membership management derives from a name of the Hindu god Ganesha.

1600

Google's massively scaled, cluster-level file system comes from this Greek word that means "a person or thing of enormous size, importance, or ability."

What is "Colossus"?

1600

This is the process of being certified, like a University.

What is "accreDITAtion"? 

1600

These thin, wispy clouds take their name from the Latin word meaning "a ringlet or curling lock of hair"

What is “cirrus”?

1600

The name of these ice cream bars invented in 1920 implies that they'll actually improve your temperament.

What is "GOOd Humor"?  

2000

This Gmail backend might give you goosebumps.

What is "Tingle"?

2000

This  Greek internal codename for Binary Authorization means "critical".

What is "Kritis"?

2000

A person who can be brought from another country to face criminal charges is considered this.

What is "extraDITAble"? 

2000

A multi-level, gray, ominous-looking, amorphous, nearly uniform cloud that usually produces continuous rain, snow, or sleet but no lightning or thunder.

What is “nimbostratus”?

2000

Steven Spielberg produced & wrote the story for this film about a group of kids who find pirate treasure.

What is "The GOOnies"?