The GOOG May Have Arthritis
June 9, 2011
“Ex-Google Engineer Dubs Goofrastructure ‘Truly Obsolete’” jarred me from end-of-day wind down. Read the article. The basic idea is that Google, which is 13 years old, is now getting technical arthritis. Here’s the passage that caught my attention:
In a blog post published earlier this week, Dhanji R. Prasanna announced that he had resigned from the company, and though he praised Google in many ways, he made a point of saying that the company’s famously distributed back-end is behind the times.”Here is something you may have heard but never quite believed before: Google’s vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete,” he wrote. “Don’t get me wrong, their hardware and datacenters are the best in the world, and as far as I know, nobody is close to matching it. But the software stack on top of it is 10 years old, aging and designed for building search engines and crawlers. And it is well and truly obsolete.”
True or false? I don’t know. But few dare to criticize the GOOG. Even fewer Xooglers get too frisky in their post Google adventures.
One thing is certain: The GOOG faces some real competition. Like other online tech companies such as Dialog Information Services, the costs of keeping current is just too great. Measure the cost in management cycles, coding, or attacks on nation states. Has Google faced challenges in social media because of technical limitations?
Stephen E Arnold, June 9, 2011
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