Re:The Evolution of SRE at Google
by everfrustrated on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:57PM
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Most companies are really just crud apps. Very few are doing anything technically innovative.
And that's just fine.
I wonder how much of the early Google technical innovation was more a product of open source tech/distributed systems being a lot more immature (I'm particularly thinking databases) 25 years ago.
Ultimately all companies get bloated and loose their way. It shouldn't be a suprise this has happened to Google - 25 years on they are mega corp and idling. Probably for the best as it allows innovators a chance to compete.
I wonder how much of the early Google technical innovation was more a product of open source tech/distributed systems being a lot more immature (I'm particularly thinking databases) 25 years ago.
Ultimately all companies get bloated and loose their way. It shouldn't be a suprise this has happened to Google - 25 years on they are mega corp and idling. Probably for the best as it allows innovators a chance to compete.