well, your statement would lead to the question: ¿if there was no architecture needed at all for million lines of code, why should you need one for trillion lines?

that is where it points: big and small balls of sweet mud.

i like the mud, as i have learned so many different words to say mud through this impressive piece of text - just one reason, i have to admit, not to get me wrong here - but do i have to get to munich for that? last time an old, grey lady with a pearl necklet said to me there, she would call the police, because i was sitting on the sidewalk - in her eyes, played with the mud, so to say. that's a true freudian trauma! well ok, different season, though ;)

don't think we'd have to go to Munich or anywhere to hear about the mud principle, the dog is in the detail, as we say here in the Alps. And it could be interesting what Herr Gabriel has to say about those. We could ask Brian if he is aware of good new work by this gentleman or if via studying the highflying work of GOOG he just went nuts (trillions of LOC sounds nuts anyway). The net contains those billions for a long time, lots of them very similar (like all those buggy wordprocessors and some OSes etc.) and parts of those talk to each other via a nearly 30 years old 4 layer protocol model, that until today everybody in the know knows never was the best anyway.

take a look. actually, it was the link to mob software that brought me to the mud and made things happen, to you remember?