Question

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])

ANSWER: Google LLC [or GOOGL; accept Alphabet Incorporated]
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= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%21%91.83

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Karan GurazadaTexasToronto B5210
Ryan SunUC Berkeley BOttawa5510
Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina ARutgers5610
James Ah YongWaterloo BBritish Columbia5710
Rohan DalalGeorgia TechIowa State5710
Michał GerasimiukStanfordWaterloo A6110
Geoffrey WuColumbia AUC Berkeley A66-5
Ryan RosenbergNYUWUSTL B7210
Nathan ZhangCornell AJohns Hopkins73-5
Charles HangWUSTL AToronto A7310
Stefan Stealey-EuchnerArizona StateYale7310
Brian LaiVirginiaVanderbilt7410
Cade ReinbergerRITMichigan74-5
Adam FineChicago AIllinois A7410
Ani PerumallaPenn StateLSE7410
Nathan SheffieldMITVirginia Tech76-5
Thomas TibbettsUCFIllinois B7610
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateFlorida83-5
Derek ChenColumbia BWinona State11310
Jason ZhangToronto CMinnesota11410
Julian BushlowCornell BNorth Carolina B11410
Liam StarnesChicago BHarvard11410
Alex AkridgeIndianaNorthwestern11410
Isaac MammelMarylandOhio State11610
Qingyu ZhangFloridaGeorgia State13310
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AColumbia A13310
Todd MaslykMichiganRIT13310
Noah ChinVirginia TechMIT13310
David BassJohns HopkinsCornell A13310