Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
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Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#2I 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!
Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#3I 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!
They don’t, and if you’ve got the G-factor, pun intended, to get an offer at Google you can get an offer anywhere. Which, honestly, makes this repository all the more confusing to me.
I’m sure there are some people that have lived only within this ecosystem, but that’s the possibly the height of privilege.
Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#4We literally talked about this this week
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092
Are people really still jerking about a company that's been around for like a 1/4 of a century?
Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#5I 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!
It is almost the other way around. Many of these open-source projects, have roots with engineers leaving these big companies and wanting to use the same tools, so they create them. Or, by these big companies releasing papers and then folks creating open-source versions. Here's some examples of the latter: Dapper (w/ OpenTracing) [1], Spanner (w/ CockroachDB) [2], Borg (w/ Mesos) [3], Dremel (w/ Drill) [4]. I'm sure there are tons more examples but these are just off the top of my head.
[1] https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36356.pdf
[2] https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub39966.pdf
Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#6I 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!
It is almost the other way around. Many of these open-source projects, have roots with engineers leaving these big companies and wanting to use the same tools, so they create them. Or, by these big companies releasing papers and then folks creating open-source versions. Here's some examples of the latter: Dapper (w/ OpenTracing) [1], Spanner (w/ CockroachDB) [2], Borg (w/ Mesos) [3], Dremel (w/ Drill) [4]. I'm sure t…
Prometheus is borgmon. Which is a bit funny as it's used by k8s now. It's also funny as the author left Google, wrote it in 2 years for SoundCloud, then went back to Google.
Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#7We literally talked about this this week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092 Are people really still jerking about a company that's been around for like a 1/4 of a century?
Sure why not?
And the linked article, while somewhat related has an entirely different message/purpose as this one.
Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#8Sourcegraph CEO here. Cool to see we are listed as a CodeSearch alternative. We assembled some links to Google internal docs and studies about how they use their Google internal CodeSearch tool. See the links at the top of
https://docs.sourcegraph.com/user/search if interested.
Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#9We literally talked about this this week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092 Are people really still jerking about a company that's been around for like a 1/4 of a century?
How it's the age relevant? I'd guess that the number of engineers and the size of the infrastructure used are far more relevant to just guess how interesting things are.
Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
#10Great list, and interesting for non-Googlers too. I'd replace, though:
Google -> Real World
free food -> :(
With:
free food -> free time