Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 9, 2011 @09:50AM from the or-is-it-just-sour-grapes dept.

lee1 writes "Dhanji R. Prasanna, an engineer who recently resigned from Google, describes Google's famous back-end infrastructure as a collection of obsolete technologies, designed 10 years ago for building search engines and crawlers. He blasts MapReduce and its closed-source friends as 'ancient, creaking dinosaurs', compared with outside open source projects like MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. He also criticizes Google's coding culture, which has become unfriendly to hacker types due to the company's enormous size." I suspect that most people would be happy to have company infrastructure problems as pressing as Google's, though.

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Former Employee Has Chip on Shoulder... by Nethemas+the+Great · 2011-06-09 09:54 · Score: 4, Funny

news at eleven.

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Re:MapReduce vs Hadoop by MightyMartian · 2011-06-09 09:56 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm sure he's pushing his own brand new technology, Sour Grapes

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Translation by crow_t_robot · 2011-06-09 10:11 · Score: 4, Funny

Heaven SUCKS! The noise of all the angel's wings flapping is making it difficult to truly enjoy my harem of supermodels, swimming pool filled with wine and diamond roller skates! I'M OUTTA HERE, SUCKERS.