A Google talk on “Building Large Systems at Google” by Narayanan “Shiva” Shivakumar (via Greg Linden).

He talks about some of the larger software systems: GFS (Google File System), Map Reduce and Big Table and then some of the issues around the hardware that Google run on.

I have mentioned Big Table before with a talk that Jeff Dean gave at the University Of Washington.

Nothing about Sawzall though.