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Unless you have a monopoly on the ad market that's going to mask all of your bad managerial, strategy and culture problems, then I'd advise steering well clear
by bluefishinit 3y ago
Unless you have a monopoly on the ad market that's going to mask all of your bad managerial, strategy and culture problems, then I'd advise steering well clear of copying Google. They make money in-spite of their day to day practices, not because of them.
- zirgs 3y agoYup - just look at Stadia. This is how they handle stuff that's not related to ads.
- opportune 3y agoFrom someone who’s seen how the sausage gets made, I both agree and disagree. A lot of Google’s practices really are good software engineering practices - provided you have the money to invest in replicating it to a high degree of quality, which could be substantial and better spent elsewhere. When you have one of the most lucrative business models of all time you definitely have the money to invest in trying to make it as stable to maintain and easy to add value onto as possible, so it was definitely worth it for Google in many cases, but each other company will have to determine the costs vs benefits themselves. Replicating Blaze and Forge seems really expensive and hard to get right (though it can be tremendously valuable for development on a large codebase). Postmortems, containerization, servers-as-cattle, gradual non-global releases… those aren’t as expensive to set up and have great cost/benefit ratios. It’d be stupid to not do these just because Google does them (and in some cases invented or popularized the practice).