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+Facebook Inc.
+Facebook Engineering Team
+
+Google Inc.
+# Initial version authors:
+Jeffrey Dean <jeff@google.com>
+Sanjay Ghemawat <sanjay@google.com>
+
+# Partial list of contributors:
+Kevin Regan <kevin.d.regan@gmail.com>
+Johan Bilien <jobi@litl.com>