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Lots of time good ideas that are almost assuredly self evident still end up needing to be proved out. A ten line code change might take a design doc, a report j
by VirusNewbie 4y ago
Lots of time good ideas that are almost assuredly self evident still end up needing to be proved out. A ten line code change might take a design doc, a report justifying the impact the change will have, buy in from external teams etc.
There are pros and cons to this but I could also see other companies shipping a small change like the above toy example much much faster.
- lumost 4y ago10 lines can be big or small at the size of Google. They have ~23 years of legacy, tens of billions in revenue, and a product that requires a massive technical infrastructure to operate. Over time that type of money makes a company risk averse as they can afford to be risk averse. Or to simply dump people time onto trivial activities to ensure that things go well. Ideally they could invest in methods of blast radius protection to speed up the iteration cycle. As I recall, they still allowed teams to get a tiny slice of search traffic diverted to a custom experiment on a custom service without too much overhead.