Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google

Re:Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google by citrin_ru on Thursday May 15, 2025 @03:13AM (#43992590)

For small scale one can build a simple system but I see many are trying to copy FAANG architecture anyway. IMHO it’s a fallacy - people think that if they’ll would copy architecture used by google their company will be successful like google. I think it other was around - google has to build complex systems because it has many users.

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Re:Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google by nottorp on Thursday May 15, 2025 @03:24AM (#43992648)

Yes, it's called "cargo cult" and it applies to a lot of architecture and processes decisions in IT :)

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Re:Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google by ungreased0675 on Thursday May 15, 2025 @09:33AM (#43994915)

It’s an infectious disease among developers. Some people would spend weeks making a simple landing page, and it would require at least 3 different cloud services.

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Re:Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google by nottorp on Friday May 16, 2025 @07:57AM (#44004323)

I'll raise you 7. If i recall correctly. At my tiny workplace we once hired someone to do a simple industrial web site that wasn't likely to ever have more than 2000 users and 10k "entities" in the database.

7 is the number of different AWS services he managed to use for just a prototype.

We thanked him and rewrote the thing.

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