Google truly is a marvel of both performance and innovation. If you read any tech publications, odds are you have seen an article on the topic of “how Google does it”.

If you are interested in the subject, I would suggest this article about Google’s IT strategy. In reading the article, you can easily see Google is definitely a business comprised of developers and IT engineers as virtually all their software (including their development tools) is custom developed and their hardware infrastructure is a vast collection of finely tuned commodity machines.

As you will see when you read, Google has everything from custom Linux kernels powering their machines to their own database manipulation programming languages. Whether you are a computer specialist or not, this article is definitely worth the read.