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Good quote: "Engineers at Google spend huge amounts of their time being forced to prematurely optimize their backend and frontend infrastructure." The root of
by petervandijck 16y ago
Good quote: "Engineers at Google spend huge amounts of their time being forced to prematurely optimize their backend and frontend infrastructure."
The root of all evil. At Google. That's ironic.
Another great quote: "Amazon EC2 is a better ecosystem for fast iteration and innovation than Google’s internal borg system."
- nostrademons 16y agoThe irony: #22 on this list, which just made HN a few days ago: http://searchengineland.com/25-things-i-hate-about-google-revisited-5-years-later-67969 http://searchengineland.com/25-things-i-hate-about-google-re... The reason he puts it as "LOVE" is directly because products aren't allowed to launch unless they can prove they have sufficient capacity. And AFAIK the policy was put in place because of a few high profile failures where a popular service launched and then keeled over from high demand. I don't necessarily think it's the right trade-off, but it's important to note that it is a trade-off, and other people absolutely love the effects of something that I find rather annoying as an engineer.