Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

For context, the rant is from 2011. Steve Yegge meant to publish it internally as Google was dogfeeding Google+ to their employees, but he accidentally published it publically.

I though Google's response was impressive. From Steve[1]:

> "Everyone just laughed at me a lot, all the way up to the top, for having committed what must be the great-granddaddy of all Reply-All screwups in tech history. But they also listened, which is super cool. I probably shouldn’t talk much about it, but they’re already figuring out how to deal with some of the issues I raised."

[1]https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...

Google is the vampire squid at this time.

There is a sense of arrogance there, this idea that they are smarter than everyone.

Contrast to what pivotal/emc is doing with reactor. Better performing storage is snake oil unless you can suck latency out of the whole stack so they are giving the tools away.

I miss Stevey's blog rants

His blog was by far my favorite. It touched on topics at a much deeper than anybody else and it's clear that he looks at the world from a brutally practical and realistic perspective. Something that's sesperately needed in an industry dominated by math/CS purists and architecture astronauts.

I hope, one day he leaves the Borg and continues to contribute meaningful commentary.