Google
Cloud Infrastructure
Google

Borg/Kubernetes foundation powering global search and cloud services

Employees:180,000+
Revenue:$282B
Founded:1998
HQ:Mountain View, CA
Ticker:GOOGL
Key Metrics
Users4.3B+ users
Requests8.5B+ searches daily
Uptime99.999%
Latency<200ms
YouTube Hours/Day1B+
Gmail Users1.8B
Data Centers35+
Tech Stack
Angular
C++
Java
Go
Bigtable
Spanner
Borg
Kubernetes
Blaze/Bazel
Dremel
TensorFlow
Flutter
System Architecture

Borg/Kubernetes Foundation

Google Infrastructure Architecture

Global Distributed Systems

Global Users

4.3B+ Users
Search, Gmail, YouTube, Maps

Global Edge Network

Google Front End
Load Balancing, SSL Termination
Google CDN
Edge Caching

Service Mesh

Search
C++, Bigtable
Gmail
Java, Spanner
YouTube
Python, Vitess
Maps
C++, Go

Borg Cluster Management

Borg
Container Orchestration
Spanner
Globally Distributed DB
Bigtable
NoSQL
gRPC

Key Components

Borg

Google's internal cluster management system that inspired Kubernetes

C++
Protocol Buffers
Custom Linux kernel
Spanner

Globally distributed, strongly consistent database

TrueTime
Paxos
Custom hardware
Bigtable

Distributed storage system for structured data

GFS/Colossus
Chubby
SSTable