How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perforce to Piper

Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by readthenotes1 on Monday July 01, 2024 @03:00AM (#40843272)

"Jeff Dean, now Alphabet's chief scientist, personally stopped by the room that day to check in on the progress, helping boost morale, and further emphasizing the critical nature of the project."

That is such a cringy, fearful, statement...

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by shiroiushi on Monday July 01, 2024 @03:28AM (#40843390)

Sounds like an instance of seagull management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by abraae on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:21AM (#40843664)

A bit like "performing the routine heroics needed to keep Google’s source control server alive".

Though perhaps I lack perspective, having just toured Normandy where the D Day landings took place.

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by DrBazza on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:45AM (#40843806)

Also, heroism isn't routine.

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by underdeserver on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:51AM (#40843837)

Why?

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by DEADMINCE on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:02AM (#40843898)

Jeff?

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by underdeserver on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:14AM (#40843960)

Jeff always seemed to me like a good guy with positive energy.

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by blitzar on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:37AM (#40844088)

If true, huge red flag for the organisation. Written by Google PR - so probably not true.

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by gremlinExtra on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:31AM (#40846781)

Are you implying graphite.dev is somehow affiliated with Google's PR team?

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by blitzar on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:00PM (#40847745)

How do you think outsiders get access to insiders to write articles about what happened behind closed doors at large corporations?

Affiliated with, no. Unless the author was there, just made everything up or sourced the details via 3rd party reporting (or as is the case in the opening line - via google published papers/press releases) then yes google PR personel would have been involved.

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by Jensson on Monday July 01, 2024 @02:36PM (#40848880)

What makes it fearful? I read that as they were happy that they would likely to get promoted if the project went well since it had attention from higher ups, how is that something to fear? Google never fired people at that point in time, nobody had anything to fear.

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