Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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by reubano • 10 years ago

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PaulHoule• 10 years ago

Google is the vampire squid at this time.

There is a sense of arrogance there, this idea that they are smarter than everyone.

Contrast to what pivotal/emc is doing with reactor. Better performing storage is snake oil unless you can suck latency out of the whole stack so they are giving the tools away.

netinstructions• 10 years ago

For context, the rant is from 2011. Steve Yegge meant to publish it internally as Google was dogfeeding Google+ to their employees, but he accidentally published it publically.

I though Google's response was impressive. From Steve[1]:

"Everyone just laughed at me a lot, all the way up to the top, for having committed what must be the great-granddaddy of all Reply-All screwups in tech history. But they also listened, which is super cool. I probably shouldn’t talk much about it, but they’re already figuring out how to deal with some of the issues I raised."

[1]https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...

reubano• 10 years ago

Wow, what a fascinating read!

EvanPlaice• 10 years ago

I miss Stevey's blog rants

His blog was by far my favorite. It touched on topics at a much deeper than anybody else and it's clear that he looks at the world from a brutally practical and realistic perspective. Something that's sesperately needed in an industry dominated by math/CS purists and architecture astronauts.

I hope, one day he leaves the Borg and continues to contribute meaningful commentary.

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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