> Typically, things are built on a devserver (although this was transitioning to on-demand VMs, for which the Google equivalent was CitC) I skipped over that p

> Typically, things are built on a devserver (although this was transitioning to on-demand VMs, for which the Google equivalent was CitC) I skipped over that parenthetical in first read, but my God, it's not even wrong. I mean citc is excellent and all, but describing those as equivalent just makes me wonder if you held some non technical role and are just playing telephone from people who better understand things. Like I'm just imagining a conversation where you're like, how does Facebook handle this specific thing that's handled by a X at Google (or the reverse)? Getting an answer on one side that involves citc and the other that involves on demand and deciding that that specific problem represents the entirety of those two ecosystems. I guess one of the difficulties I have here is that a lot of what you've described across a bunch of google-facebook comparison is just like so factually wrong that i can't ignore the problems with a direct reading of what you are saying. At a deeper level, I think I'd totally accept google's CITC and facebook's on-demand as like philosophically similar in that solutions to seemingly unrelated things fit into the structure enabled by those systems. Again though, I think crediting you with trying to discuss things in those terms would be too generous given that that equivalence is no more true of on-demand VMs than it is of devservers.