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as someone who worked previously at google, and went back to the start up world working with php mysql, this is not true at all
by teen 7y ago
as someone who worked previously at google, and went back to the start up world working with php mysql, this is not true at all
- Lammy 7y agoHow is it not? Seems like simple economics to me. Something like maintaining a custom kernel distribution takes ${x} amount of engineer time for ${y} amount of “savings” (better perf, custom patches, nonstandard features, whatever). Why bother until you have a fleet of machines large enough for y to be greater than x?
- thelean12 7y agoI don't have numbers but I feel this is exaggerated. Most people work on pretty normal stuff. The biggest proprietary sink for most people is stuff like the build system/tooling/etc. Not many people have to be in a role where you're micro-optimizing something. They certainly exist, but not in the numbers some people on here seem to think.