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Bill Weil
MENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JULY 13, 2026
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Sage Weil is a computer scientist and distributed systems engineer best known as the founder and chief architect of Ceph, a scalable distributed storage platform. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where his research focused on the Ceph distributed file system, including the CRUSH data distribution algorithm and metadata management. He currently works at Red Hat as the chief architect of the Ceph project.
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mention·The a16z Show·JULY 13, 2026
“The Google File System paper was published. And that paper used replication and talked about using Paxos... Bill Weil... happened to be at Google. And he was looking at what was going on in the Google File System.”
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