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Google did a lot of pioneering work and created a proprietary stack. This used to be a big competitive advantage, but the industry largely caught up and now the
by erik_seaberg 8y ago
Google did a lot of pioneering work and created a proprietary stack. This used to be a big competitive advantage, but the industry largely caught up and now the incompatibility is mostly just tech debt that everyone has to ramp up on.
- nitrogen 8y agoA lot of what's required in onboarding is domain knowledge. Say a fintech engineer gets a job in industrial controls or vice versa; there will be considerable time spent learning about the industry itself, regulatory environment, etc.
- lozenge 8y agoAre you speaking as a Googler/Xoogler? They come out with impressive projects like Kube and their build system, I would be surprised if their in house stack can really be described entirely as "tech debt".
- erik_seaberg 8y agoXoogler from a few years ago. I'm not saying they have nothing cutting edge, just that the rest of the industry eventually reached parity with a lot of their everyday platforms. If you come in knowing HDFS and Cassandra and Spark and k8s, moving to CFS and BigTable and Flume and Borg involves learning a whole lot of minor differences that don't make you much more capable but screw up code reuse. I was pleased to see Cloud Spanner hit the market, and trying to nudge the industry towards hermetic builds with Bazel.
- 4h53n 7y agoWhat's CFS? Cloud Filestore?
- erik_seaberg 7y agoDetails are fuzzy but I think CFS is a name for part of Colossus, a rewrite of GoogleFS. https://cloud.google.com/files/storage_architecture_and_challenges.pdf https://cloud.google.com/files/storage_architecture_and_chal...