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A close source told me only half joking that at Google, when you start any new service, you‘ve got the choice between about a dozen backing services, of which h
by endymi0n 8y ago
A close source told me only half joking that at Google, when you start any new service, you‘ve got the choice between about a dozen backing services, of which half are deprecated and the other half are not officially supported yet...
- JOnAgain 8y agoI don’t think he was joking at all
- puzzle 8y agoThe actual proverb, by an engineer (Paul C), is "there are two ways of doing things at Google: the deprecated one, and the one that doesn't work yet". Usually the deprecation occurred when a service outlived the original requirements and was no longer a great fit or not very usable. A good example were Babysitter and GWQ, which were eventually obsoleted by Borg.