Cnet on Gmail Labs & architecture - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
Thanks to all the frontend engineers who made this work: "But the bigger reason this is interesting is it shows how flexible an infrastructure Google has built under Gmail. That's powerful because the company can monitor how often people use the options, and how that affects Gmail's performance and utility. And because the Gmail Labs options are largely independent of each other, Google can test many improvements simultaneously." - Keith Coleman