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Employees at this company were the first to track a so-called “error budget” equal to one minus the SLO. Latency, traffic, errors, and saturation compose “four golden signals” outlined in a handbook by this company, whose employee Ben Sloss pioneered the field of site reliability engineering. This company’s Protocol Buffers data format serializes (10[1])data for its (10[1])gRPC (10[1])framework. (10[2])A control plane manages (10[1])clusters of nodes by wrapping (-5[1])containers into pods in this company’s (10[1])Kubernetes (10[2]-5[1])(“koo-ber-NET-eez”) product. (10[3]-5[1])Apache Hadoop (10[1]-5[1])implements a framework invented by this company (-5[1])that performs a distributed shuffle of worker nodes in between map and reduce steps. A May 2024 data leak at this company revealed that backlinks still factored into its PageRank (10[1])algorithm, (10[4])which is (10[1])the primary target of SEO. For 10 points, name this creator of the largest search engine. ■END■ (10[5])

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