Software sucking after 10 years? Sounds normal. Tough to avoid!
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete.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, BigTable and MapReduce are ancient, creaking dinosaurs >> compared to MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. And new projects >> like GWT, Closure and MegaStore are sluggish, overengineered Leviathans >> compared to fast, elegant tools like jQuery and mongoDB. 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 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. > -- 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.
