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Honest opinion on FAANG tools is that the big ones are now antiquated and slowing these big tech companies down. Eventually they will need to rip out all these
by logicslave 6y ago
Honest opinion on FAANG tools is that the big ones are now antiquated and slowing these big tech companies down. Eventually they will need to rip out all these tools that once gave them an edge and replace them, but they cant bc of how much depends on them, and whala, you have a large failing slow company
- ponker 6y agoIs “whala” an adaptation from the French “voilá” or of a different origin?
- logicslave 6y agoIts me not caring about the spelling haha...
- jayd16 6y agoIts a boneappletea-ism.
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- beagle3 6y agoNot clear. Look at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wallah#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wallah#Etymology_2 wallah is arabic slang for "by god" voila is french for "look there", meaning "just look at that" They are totally different semantically interjections originally, yet one fits almost everywhere the other does, and if Wiktionary is to be believed, in Danish one is a spelling for the other.
- tpetry 6y agoDeclaring a FAANG company failing because it‘s toolset is antiquated is the rare hn elitist opinion you see here more and more. Are startup people in the valley more and more becoming blind to the real world?
- logicslave 6y agoI'd say once you take a peak behind the curtain at some of these FAANGS you see that their once greatest assets are becoming liabilities. The magic of "FAANG" goes away. The innovative systems they all built in 2007-2012 period are now aging.
- herodoturtle 6y agoAn analogy, if I may share: On the one hand I agree with you, in that these liabilities you describe are much like the legacy systems I see in our local banking sector. On the other hand, these legacy systems just work. And adopting newer / more modern systems might definitely have advantages, but doing so creates a bunch of other liabilities - as I've seen take place in our new startup banks. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. Of course that's just in banking. I most certainly don't have the experience to comment on whether the same liability tradeoff would happen at FAANGs.
- crisper78 6y agoFAANG's often don't have paying customers, banks do. Its not being stuck between a rock and a hard place, you just need strong management that understands that changing whole systems is never a good idea without clear benefit, other than "technical debt" which is such a bad term for reliable software. Software doesn't age, im not sure how software engineers don't understand this, or maybe they do and want to write more s/w.
- oblio 6y agoSoftware does age. Security ages, network protocols age, human related configs age (timezones, for example). And that's besides tribal knowledge that goes away as people leave or retire.
- discordance 6y agoUnless I’m missing your point, I disagree. Many Microsoft teams I’ve worked with use Azure Dev Ops or Github + whatever OSS tooling they need. They have all done solid testing, infra as code and CI/CD etc. The tooling is not at all antiquated. It’s actually been pretty refreshing to be around.
- mlazos 6y agoNew orgs are forming at big companies all the time. In my time at Microsoft, I’ve seen the tooling go from horrible monorepos with perforce to really nice git repos in azure devops. I also don’t think “failing” is the right term for these megacorps. Slow maybe, but even that varies per team.
- alisonkisk 6y agoWhat does it mean to have plural monorepos?
- bregma 6y agoWouldn't the central planning committee include a great leap forward in the next five year plan? This is capitalism, after all, and it's far superior to the socialism of open source software where it's survival of the fittest in a dog-eat-dog world.
- dilyevsky 6y agoRight if only they could get on such cutting edge tech as npm, cmake or just gnu make with a pile of bash like most oss projects out there