Awesome technical overview of Google's inner workings:
Google Architecture
"Google is the King of scalability. Everyone knows Google for their large, sophisticated, and fast searching, but they don't just shine in search. Their platform approach to building scalable applications allows them to roll out internet scale applications at an alarmingly high competition crushing rate. Their goal is always to build a higher performing higher scaling infrastructure to support their products. How do they do that?"
... a breakdown of Google's massive highly scalable architecture. This is modern distributed computing at its finest.
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