Expert to Expert: Gur Kimchi - Inside Bing Maps (aka Virtual Earth)

Posted By: Charles | Jun 17th @ 10:54 AM | 41,343 Views | 5 Comments
Erik Meijer and I paid a visit to Bing Maps infrastructure architect and Partner Development Manager Gur Kimchi for an Expert to Expert conversation about the design and architecture of Bing Maps. It takes some rocket science to process and coerce data into accurate information representative of points of interest on planet Earth. How does Bing Maps work, at the deepest levels, in the cloud? Gur and team have created a very efficient back end system that computes and returns the information you seek when using Bing Maps. Tune in. This is yet another great conversation among experts (not including myself, of course - I need to limit my caffeine intake before E2E's going forward... Smiley).

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#Jun 19th @ 2:00 AM
jomit
jomit

Not optimizing is not an option!  I like that man.

Again an excellent E2E video with lots of insights, especially the details about the data centers which runs these maps and how Microsoft optimized it.

#Jun 21st @ 9:22 AM
JoshRoss
JoshRoss
A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.

This was a great interview.  I really enjoyed the end-to-endness of the conversation.  The historical perspective gained though Gur's storytelling is awesome. 

I'm pleased to hear how the Virtual Earth team's solution to serving the bits is setting the industry benchmark for efficiency.

I also find the experience of having the topics of other interviews, such as ultra-cam and sea-dragon,  woven-in very engaging.

Since there is a lot of innovation around VE, it is hard to determine what features are live vs future features vs possible features.  For example, there was a conversation about two people, working out of two cities and utilizing VE to find a sushi bar somewhere of equal drive time between the two.

Is this a live, planed, or possible feature?

#Jun 24th @ 5:48 PM
GaryB
GaryB

What a ridiculous shirt. Is this supposed to be edgy or something? And are those stuffed animals in his office? Do they tell this guy how hip he is?

#Jun 25th @ 11:52 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Do you have a question? Apparently not. Move along.

C

#Jul 7th @ 10:07 AM
wmdigital
wmdigital

This is a great discussion with someone who obviously has an enterprise level approach to his work.

How much of this is 85/85 is related to knowledge gained from viewing building sides and faces? Is the caching model separate from this data or irrelevant?

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