Google’s ten years, my cognition was completely subverted

谷歌十年，我的认知被彻底颠覆

Haizhuren website: from the network Wang Haogang Wukong Intelligent Technology 2019-02-06

Part 4

For example, technologies such as MapReduce, Bigtable, and TensorFlow, which are original and far-reaching to the industry, are not just tools outside of Google. They are the collective work and pride of Google engineers. Because everyone is the master, what is uncomfortable, you can go to the source code, you can submit your own patches or new features, and even overthrow the redo. Don't be awkward, this overthrows redo, although it's hard, because you have to convince the boss and the user to find enough developers, but in fact, Google internally reinvented the framework, tools, and libraries once, twice, and three times. , interfaces, and services abound. If you don't agree with each other, you will start to make a new version and a new system. This problem will bring innumerable process confusion, and also bring about a benign competition between mountains and mountains. Under the chaos of the surface, the technology triggered by benign competition. Leap is often beyond imagination.

At Google, there are tens of thousands of engineers. I can't say that everyone is eager to be the master of technology, but there are many people who are smug. Because Google is at the forefront of technology, the engineers who pursue it do not face a purely technical follower. Of course, I don't mean that no one in Google is going to do those less cool "living work", but that most people have a strong mindset, even when doing relatively simple technical work, often I will think about how to make world-class effects.

In the interview, an engineer came up with an interview question related to the moon, and placed the algorithm, programming, design, and maintenance issues in the background of the solar system. I took this question as an example during an in-house interview technical training. As a result, the engineers who participated in the discussion expressed two opposite opinions. Some people said that the design of the topic was as subtle as it was, while others criticized the topic as far away as the reality. In fact, Google's technology homes work almost every day in the extremes of contradiction, contradiction, and transformation between reality and the future. It is often said that “looking at the stars and being down to earth” is far from describing the two sides of Google engineers.

On the one hand, engineers know how their code is involved in the most avant-garde and daring computer system in the Earth and even in this galaxy. How to be a search engine like a decade later, a mobile phone or robot with artificial intelligence, a quantum computer, Genetic engineering, driverless cars and other contributions; on the other hand, the “geek” and “home” aspects of engineers are often revealed in the details of work that is difficult for outsiders to pay attention to – there are dozens of years dedicated to optimization. The compiler's language master, the tool expert with the best code review system, the technical director who has the software and hardware prototypes, and the international team that insists on providing input and output solutions for every human language on the planet...

This is the difference in mentality, or the difference in the state of technology, which is branded in the genes of Google engineers, and others may not necessarily learn.

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