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Because, maybe, like in every big company, the thing actually doing the work is some old oracle database with some huge monolithic around it...
by aprdm 6y ago
Because, maybe, like in every big company, the thing actually doing the work is some old oracle database with some huge monolithic around it...
- pmlnr 6y agoHush, you'll scare the shiny eyed faang wannabies away, they aren't supposed to know this until employed for at least two decades.
- sellyme 6y agoOut of all the companies Google might be relying on in their back-end, I think Oracle is probably pretty far down the list.
- jeffbee 6y agoI can’t imagine what part of Google’s history would lead someone to believe there was any third party system in their production stack anywhere.
- still_grokking 6y agoDidn't they use GNU/Linux form day one on?
- jeffbee 6y agoClosed-source like Oracle I meant. They've been big boosters of all kinds of open-source stuff like linux, llvm, mysql, ...
- enneff 6y agoWell, google did use a bunch of off the shelf technologies in the early days, but now it is obvious that there is no vendor on earth that could supply the infrastructure to run Gmail.
- marcan_42 6y agoNow their corporate/finance stack on the other hand... shudder.