"Rewrote memcached (which I wrote pre-Google) in Google C++"
What is diff in 'Google C++' and 'C++'?
An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
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Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#52In my eyes, Brad is one of the proverbial 10X engineers. I think Google/Go was lucky to land him and keep him around for this long. Best of luck in your next step, Brad!
10x engineers make other 10x engineers, most of the time.
Just look at mathematicians and their mentors and people they mentored, famous names everywhere!
It's not a coincidence.
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#53It’s amazing how this is the first time I have heard his name. Great people basically disappear under the Google name.
It's interesting how fleeting software fame is. Perhaps that's just a special case of how fleeting fame is. Folks who came of age in the early 2000s certainly remember him - he founded LiveJournal; wrote memcached, MogileFS, Gearman, and a bunch of other prominent software packages; authored the first version of the OpenID spec (which eventually became OAuth, which you see all over the web); and was one of the early…
That's true; some of those folks just left the software industry, though, I think, or are at or approaching retirement age.
Tangentially, it's still interesting -- and faintly depressing -- to me how much I think LiveJournal got right about social media that its bigger successors, well, don't, specifically related to privacy. LJ users had comparatively immense control over who could read and reply to posts.
This isn't to say that Twitter and Facebook don't get a lot of things right, too, in terms of ease of posting, lack of friction, and (for both better and worse) monetization, but I wish "granularity of acces control" had been a lesson we'd carried forward.
In any case, I'll be curious to see where Brad ends up next.
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#54"Rewrote memcached (which I wrote pre-Google) in Google C++" What is diff in 'Google C++' and 'C++'?
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#55Favourties:
> Worked on most of the Go standard library. Primary author of net/http, database/sql, os/exec, Go's build/test CI system, etc.
Thank you. Software poetry they are to me.
And this one: > met Googler wife
Best wishes, Brad Fitz
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#56Is Brad moving to Cloudflare given that this was posted by their CTO? Best of luck Brad, always been a fan of your stuff!
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#57> 12 years, 5 months at Google > many Google-internal CLs ("change lists" == commits == PRs) > 3,064 Android CLs > 10,787 Go CLs This is at least an average of 3 commits a day (4 if he didn't work weekends). How is that possible?
Three plus per working day is not terribly hard, you just have to make smaller, more focused commits and be productive.
Github claims I have 3,135 in 2017, 2,361 in 2018 and 1,855 in 2019. 7,351 in 3 years.
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
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#59Be honest, you are going back to Perl, right? Perl6 will be so amazing when you get involved again. See you at the PDX Perl meetups very soon?
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#60Is Brad moving to Cloudflare given that this was posted by their CTO? Best of luck Brad, always been a fan of your stuff!
That would be news to me.