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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2017
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alexander Shraer, Stanford, CA (US);
Kfir Lev-Ari, Kfar Saba, IL;
Arif Abdulhusein Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Vishesh Khemani, Seattle, WA (US);
Atul Adya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for automatic sharding and load balancing in a distributed data processing system. In one aspect, a method includes determining workload distribution for an application across worker computers and in response to determining a load balancing operation is required: selecting a first worker computer having a highest load measure relative to respective load measure of the other work computers; determining one or more move operations for a partition of data assigned to the first worker computer and a weight for each move operation; and selecting the move operation with a highest weight the selected move operation.