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Let's not exaggerate. Everything they did was already well-established in academia for decades and what they built was pretty dumbed-down rather than novel, at
by mgaunard 2y ago
Let's not exaggerate. Everything they did was already well-established in academia for decades and what they built was pretty dumbed-down rather than novel, at least conceptually.
Sure, they did good engineering to apply those techniques at Google, but they did not "lay out the foundations of large scale distributed computing".
- VirusNewbie 2y agoAcademia lags quite a bit behind industry when it comes to software engineering.
- mgaunard 2y agoThat's because academia doesn't actually do software engineering, it does computer science.