hrefna ,
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It's always interesting to me to see what people think of as Enterprise™ or Google Scale™

About half the time it seems completely orthogonal to what is actually used in Enterprise™ or at Google Scale™

"We don't need that, it's only useful at Google Scale™" seems to have about a 50/50 chance of actually being something that is related to Google's scale and not just… like a standard "you have a distributed system" requirement or a more general problem.

Then it gets reinvented, because of course

skorgu ,
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@hrefna it's funny when it's the reverse. Just because you're at Google doesn't mean everything is actually Google scale. Sometimes things are small!

hrefna OP ,
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@skorgu Yup, fear my 10s of queries per day, three nines service! Clearly it needs all of the infrastructure!

skorgu ,
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@hrefna sometimes the most important part of optimization is stopping engineers from optimizing.

vocumsineratio ,
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@hrefna @skorgu

Of course we need more nines than queries per day, that's just math.

argv_minus_one ,
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@hrefna @skorgu

All these young whippersnappers and their nines! When I was their age, stuff went down all the time, and that's how we liked it! Error pages build character! 😂

alicegg ,
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@skorgu @hrefna The famous "I don't know how to count that low" symdrome

hrefna OP ,
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@alicegg

Or as they said in my introduction session:

"Welcome to Google, where the impossible is merely difficult and the easy is also difficult."

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