Luiz André Barroso has died

I loved Luiz, I worked for him in platforms (his datacenter development department). He was truly one of the kindest people I have ever met. I deeply miss our banter around the coffee machine and am saddened the last time is past.<p>We&#x27;ve lost another great pioneer and human in our tribe. Pour out a beautiful coffee for Luiz

He was the only senior manager I ever had who would walk the halls and talk to engineers he bumped into. He would be genuinely curious about what we were doing.<p>Once we were admiring a bird perched in a tree outside the window, and he came over to tell us all about it, we all felt his genuine enthusiasm.<p>He was a lovely person and, even though I didn&#x27;t work directly for him, I am sad that he is gone.

Discussed a couple of months ago, when it happened:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37606775">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37606775</a>

His book &quot;The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines&quot; was immensely valuable to me as I moved into datacenter management as a new-grad. RIP.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pub41606&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pub41606&#x2F;</a>

I came to know when Jeff Dean tweeted about it in September [1]. Truly a great loss.<p>[1]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JeffDean&#x2F;status&#x2F;1705042899677884630" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JeffDean&#x2F;status&#x2F;1705042899677884630</a>

He is from the same university where Lua was invented and still maintained nowadays. This Brazilian university has quite a history of awesome achievements specially in graphics computing...

This already happened in circ Sept 2023. Great Googler. He kept the culture alive. May he rest in peace.

Seems too young, may he rest in peace

FYI old news. But he was so humble and had gratitude, this was exemplified in how he still kept the Google culture alive by being transparent in TGIFs.<p>May his soul rest in peace.

The heroes we don&#x27;t usually hear about. RIP.

Do we know what happened? 59 is a young age.

Typo in the article title<p>&gt;Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58<p>He died at 59

Looks like he was really loved. A few months ago when it happened there were many posts talking about him (which regretfully as a Brazilian I didn&#x27;t know). I wish he had got this much attention when he was still alive.

As a Brazilian who migrated to another country, I mostly try to hide my background. It is great to see that some of our values, like compassion, are appreciated in other countries, and folks like Luiz André could show a bit of it

Gone too young. Seemed a nice person.<p>I wonder if the fox will return this night. Maybe I should put some corks outside.

... died 16 September.<p>Should the title be updated?

Rest in peace.

R.I.P.