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Brad even acknowledges that the original program was nice in it's day. C++ complicated things but it sounded like the bigger problem was developers leaving the
by chrissnell 13y ago
Brad even acknowledges that the original program was nice in it's day. C++ complicated things but it sounded like the bigger problem was developers leaving the team and new features being hackishly implemented.
- scottlamb 13y agoAnd don't underestimate "changing environment". As Brad said, "in 2007, using local disk wasn't restricted ... in 2012, containers get tiny % of local disk spindle time ... cluster file systems own disk time on your machine, not you." Within Google today, if you're directly using local disk instead of the Google storage stack, you're going to have a bad time. Even more so if you're calling read() from a single-threaded event loop.