http://rethrick.com/#waving-goodbye
Apparently, Dhanji Prasanna (of Guice and Sitebricks fame) quit Google recently. An interesting passage from his retrospective blog post: > Here is something you've may have heard but never quite believed before: > Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete. Don't get me > wrong, their hardware and datacenters are the best in the world, and as far > as I know, nobody is close to matching it. But the software stack on top of > it is 10 years old, aging and designed for building search engines and > crawlers. And it is well and truly obsolete. Protocol Buffers <http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/>, BigTable<http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html> > and MapReduce <http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html> are ancient, > creaking dinosaurs compared to MessagePack <http://msgpack.org/>, JSON, > and Hadoop <http://hadoop.apache.org/>. And new projects like > GWT<http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/> > , Closure <http://code.google.com/closure/> and > MegaStore<http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2011/Papers/CIDR11_Paper32.pdf> are > sluggish, overengineered Leviathans compared to fast, elegant tools like > jQuery <http://jquery.org/> and mongoDB <http://mongodb.org/>. Designed by > engineers in a vacuum, rather than by developers who have need of tools. In the short time I've been outside Google I've created entire apps in Java > in the space of a single workday. (Yes, you can program as quickly in > Java<http://sitebricks.org/> as > in Ruby or Python, if you understand your tools well.) I've gotten > prototypes off the ground, shown it to people, or deployed them with hardly > any barriers. Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
