It’s been over a month since my breakup with Google.

It wasn’t a an angry parting. My former employer was wonderful in many ways actually. This post isn’t about that though.

This post is about technology!

Those who knew me three years ago know that I went to work for Google in one of their more secretive groups. Secrecy will probably always remain important for Google’s data centers. After all, when you are serving up well over half of all the searches performed each day, infrastructure counts.

It was still quite frustrating for me when I couldn’t really talk about my job, especially since it felt so ridiculous. After all, I was not some research scientist for the latest top secret military operation (or was I) – I was fixing computers.

Google has gradually opened up about this particular area of expertise however, and the latest came as shock to me. And of all places, it came through a twitter post from a friend I used to work with in Hwops (that’s what you get when you shorten Hardware Operations, dummy.)

So here it is – the cnet article that tells more than I ever could tell my friends about the insides of a Google data center: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html.

And, fwiw, it was a really freaking cool job…