It is a strange twist that Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are some of the best places to work on aspects of software that many people don't care about enough to

It is a strange twist that Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are some of the best places to work on aspects of software that many people don't care about enough to pay for. A 1% improvement in the memory wasted by malloc is a cool thing that no small company or consumer would pay for. At Google or another hyperscaler, it saves literally millions of dollars per year.