Hate to be that guy, but why is this even in the front page, let alone #1?
Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
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#23Hate to be that guy, but why is this even in the front page, let alone #1?
Well I guess I’m “that guy” who finds it highly interesting as an outsider with a very high interest in search. Never knew what tools Google’s using (never bothered to look it up either) and this list is a feast of “Aha!”’s for me :)
Hopefully that answers your question ;-) Same as with a discussion about patents the other day. It’s fascinating to learn / read / understand how big businesses work as someone who’s never worked at one nor aspires to work at one, but does want to build one ;-)
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is the part that k8s uses it funny? That would have been one of the goals right? K8s is like lot of these projects except that it was created as a open source version of borg from within Google.
It’s funny because inside google borgmon is deprecated for new projects and has been since nine years at least. Of course google has stretched “deprecated” to its limits.
As long as you don't have to write promethus configs in the horrendous borgmon language....
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#25Great list, and interesting for non-Googlers too. I'd replace, though: Google -> Real World free food -> :( With: free food -> free time
Not sure why you think free food is traded for free time. Free food helps me use my time at work more effectively. I usually have breakfast and lunch with teammates, and it's a mix of socialization and work-related conversations. Half an hour in the free cafe > 45-90 minutes going someplace to buy food.
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#26Is there something comparable to the web-based IDE called Cider?
Now that Amazon took cloud9 (c9.io) out of the market, it seems like there is a sizeable void.
I want web-based Spacemacs or Evil! Or even just intelli-j.
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#27I'd love to see this for other large tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft
An equivalent of this for Microsoft is pretty much impossible because there isn't one single way of doing any of these things at the company. Different departments/orgs/teams use different tools, some self-built and some off-the-shelf (including most of the stuff on this list).
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#28I'd love to see this for other large tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft
I can't speak to Amazon, but at Microsoft the equivalents to the Google offering are going to have the same OSS competitors. Having worked on services there, the only thing I really miss is Kusto; it's now available as an Azure service, but I'm at a company all in on AWS :(
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#29Great list, and interesting for non-Googlers too. I'd replace, though: Google -> Real World free food -> :( With: free food -> free time
Not sure why you think free food is traded for free time. Free food helps me use my time at work more effectively. I usually have breakfast and lunch with teammates, and it's a mix of socialization and work-related conversations. Half an hour in the free cafe > 45-90 minutes going someplace to buy food.
So do you get to go home 45-90 minutes earlier then? I think that is what the original comment was questioning.
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#30I had never thought about this before but from this repo I can see all these smart engineers at the big tech firms live within their own walled garden (or prison?). If it weren’t for such a vibrant open source world then they’d really be stuck if they tried to apply their knowledge outside of their companies. Thanks for sharing the repo!
With Microsoft, this has changed substantially in the past decade, and there are many teams running entirely on public online services (GitHub, Azure DevOps, Travis etc) and with end-to-end open source tooling and dependencies. So it's much less of a technological bubble than it used to be. Probably less so than Google at this point. Can't say about Amazon.