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What happened to all the leather jacket boys from Google? They were setting the trends in Site Reliability Engineering some 10 years ago.

See this 2016 article for the cultural background: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/adventures-in-sre...

Bean counters took over, now it's maximum profit extraction until slow decline takes over. Decline in profit mind you, their software and service quality took a dive a while ago.

It was bean counters in 2016 too

They did get leather jackets in 2016, no?

They're all reading from the new AI SRE book https://sre.google/resources/practices-and-processes/ai-engi...

Don't underestimate them, can also crash linux/plasma https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849626

Yeah, but better not spend too much time reading AOSP source code.

Lol, but they can't build BREW ;)

Yeah, surely atleast 12 of those engineers tested their SDK thoroughly for a minimum of 14 continuous days[1]. /s

1. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

I can understand the pain as an indie dev ;(