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Part of the genius of FAANG is being big enough to do it all yourself. Want to make your aging PHP codebase faster? Just write your own PHP JIT (twice!!). Want to do RPC? Just invent your own protocol. Want servers? Just design your own chips. The list goes on and on. If you aren't FAANG, you suffer what you must at the hands of the open-source ecosystem. (Note that most things that FAANG invents are never open-sourced, or someone open-sources a knockoff of it, such as Google's Borg vs Kubernetes).

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Calling these tools "knock offs" is not just insulting to the people building these tools but also far detached from reality since several FAANG employees would tell you how much better the OSS rewrite is compared to the original one.

Insult intended. It's insulting to me that people keep saying that k8s is "from Google" (as though it's a good thing) but then turn around and say that Borg is what Google actually uses internally (as though it's a bad thing).

I neither understand how that's insulting to you nor how that justifies you insulting these OSS projects.

Did you write Borg or something?

Ha! I think many FAANG engineers would love nothing more but to "suffer" at the hands of the open-source ecosystem, instead of being force fed some half-baked not-invented-here thing that was cobbled together for political reasons.

Maybe sometimes, but Bazel for example is light years ahead of CMake.

Oh and if you do go build awesome open source work, the best way to get attention is to do it inside a FAANG company & to release a corporate blog post on it. You'll have many orders of magnitude more attention & interest in your project, if comes from a tech giant.

I thought you were about to say that if you do go build awesome work, you’ll just get bought by a FAANG anyway!

> …or someone open-sources a knockoff of it, such as Google's Borg vs Kubernetes

Google made and open-sourced Kubernetes themselves. Yes it's based on Borg, but it was an internal project first.

Nowadays it's called MAMAA instead of FAANG.[0]

[0] https://fortune.com/2021/10/29/faang-mamaa-jim-cramer-tech-f...

Just because Jim Kramer says so doesn’t mean it’s true.

If they’d have kept referring to Google instead of Alphabet, it could be MAGMA.

I should tell Jim Kramer. Maybe he’ll make that change official.

Did you mean NAGMA, as in they won't stop nagging you?

Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Netflix. MAAMAN: "Wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of devotion"

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