Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology 158
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.
Former Employee Has Chip on Shoulder... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MapReduce vs Hadoop (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure he's pushing his own brand new technology, Sour Grapes
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