Too client-centric

This article is a good start, but it's very lacking from the perspective of (a) networking (routing, BGP, ISPs, last mile technologies, ECMP, fiber optics) and (b) backend infrastructure (transit centers, data centers, clusters, racks, TOR, servers). It focuses a lot on the client's perspective, but it glosses over what happens when the packet leaves the client's machine. And since we're talking specifically about google.com, we can definitely make certain assumptions about the complexity / infrastructure on the server side.