Google, at scale: A brief review of "In the Plex" (the story of Google)

I highly recommend In the Plex to anyone on Hacker News interested in tech folklore. I'm sure even Googlers would find stories they hadn't heard before. The story of Google is an epic story fit for Homeric interpretation.

Steven Levy also wrote the excellent Crypto which covers the emergence of strong public cryptography. It is not a story of accidental discovery, but about active sabotage by the NSA and perseverance by a number of visionaries like Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman working under the radar and outside the mainstream.

http://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digit...

i read it one week ago, and well ... it's in no way any different from the thousanda other books of journalists writing about a tech company.

i would love to read a book from an (ex-)google (no, i won't call them xooglers....) coder/hacker/dev about google, i want the gory details about the history of go, their biggest server f*ck ups , the strangest 20% projects that no manager ever "got", ...

"in the plex" is just another history of google, said that, it was better than the other two books i read about the same topic and which i don't even remember by name anymore....