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Re:Sergey Brin's Resume as a Student by sanxiyn on Monday February 16, 2015 @08:51AM (#9056880)
The best source of the early Google codebase is a talk given by Jeff Dean himself. The talk describes Google1997, Google1999, Google2001, Google2004, Google2007 in some considerable details, from architectural diagrams to low-level bit packing tricks.

http://research.google.com/people/jeff/WSDM09-keynote.pdf

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Re:Sergey Brin's Resume as a Student by CmonDev on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:01AM (#9057140)
It's an overview of highly-optimized solutions to difficult problems, I am more interested in elegant code (beautiful + maintainable) - this is why I asked. Something makes me skeptical there could be any at such stage, when shipping is most important.
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