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Part of the genius of FAANG is being big enough to do it all yourself. Want to make your aging PHP codebase faster? Just write your own PHP JIT (twice!!). Want
by phendrenad2 5y ago
Part of the genius of FAANG is being big enough to do it all yourself. Want to make your aging PHP codebase faster? Just write your own PHP JIT (twice!!). Want to do RPC? Just invent your own protocol. Want servers? Just design your own chips. The list goes on and on. If you aren't FAANG, you suffer what you must at the hands of the open-source ecosystem. (Note that most things that FAANG invents are never open-sourced, or someone open-sources a knockoff of it, such as Google's Borg vs Kubernetes).
- rektide 5y agoOh and if you do go build awesome open source work, the best way to get attention is to do it inside a FAANG company & to release a corporate blog post on it. You'll have many orders of magnitude more attention & interest in your project, if comes from a tech giant.
- sjtindell 5y agoI thought you were about to say that if you do go build awesome work, you’ll just get bought by a FAANG anyway!
- SheinhardtWigCo 5y agoHa! I think many FAANG engineers would love nothing more but to "suffer" at the hands of the open-source ecosystem, instead of being force fed some half-baked not-invented-here thing that was cobbled together for political reasons.
- IshKebab 5y agoMaybe sometimes, but Bazel for example is light years ahead of CMake.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoCalling these tools "knock offs" is not just insulting to the people building these tools but also far detached from reality since several FAANG employees would tell you how much better the OSS rewrite is compared to the original one.
- phendrenad2 5y agoInsult intended. It's insulting to me that people keep saying that k8s is "from Google" (as though it's a good thing) but then turn around and say that Borg is what Google actually uses internally (as though it's a bad thing).
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoI neither understand how that's insulting to you nor how that justifies you insulting these OSS projects. Did you write Borg or something?
- cybrexalpha 5y ago> …or someone open-sources a knockoff of it, such as Google's Borg vs Kubernetes Google made and open-sourced Kubernetes themselves. Yes it's based on Borg, but it was an internal project first.
- hutrdvnj 5y agoNowadays it's called MAMAA instead of FAANG.[0] [0] https://fortune.com/2021/10/29/faang-mamaa-jim-cramer-tech-facebook-meta/ https://fortune.com/2021/10/29/faang-mamaa-jim-cramer-tech-f...
- vnchr 5y agoJust because Jim Kramer says so doesn’t mean it’s true. If they’d have kept referring to Google instead of Alphabet, it could be MAGMA. I should tell Jim Kramer. Maybe he’ll make that change official.
- speedcoder 5y agoDid you mean NAGMA, as in they won't stop nagging you?
- phendrenad2 5y agoAlphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Netflix. MAAMAN: "Wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of devotion"