Before the rise of Google, internet companies stuffed their data centers with increasingly powerful and expensive computer servers, as they struggled to reach more and more people. Each server delivered the website to a relatively small group of people. And if the server died, those people were out of luck. But Google took a different tack. Working alongside Urs Holzle, the company's first vice president of engineering, Dr. Barroso realized that the best way to distribute a wildly popular website like Google was to break it into tiny pieces and spread them evenly across an array of servers.
Luis was good at realizing what he did not yet know, and then acting on it, said Urs Holzle, Dr. Barroso's former colleague and the first vice president of engineering.
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