Some interesting observations there<p>e.g:<p>"Here is something you've may have heard but never quite believed before: Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete. Don't get me wrong, their hardware and datacenters are the best in the world, and as far as I know, nobody is close to matching it. But the software stack on top of it is 10 years old, aging and designed for building search engines and crawlers. And it is well and truly obsolete.<p>Protocol Buffers, BigTable and MapReduce are ancient, creaking dinosaurs compared to MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. And new projects like GWT, Closure and MegaStore are sluggish, overengineered Leviathans compared to fast, elegant tools like jQuery and mongoDB. Designed by engineers in a vacuum, rather than by developers who have need of tools."<p><i>if</i> true, this is a strong indicator that Google is well and truly a BigCo now. Everyone expects a company of Google's size to have its share of politics and crappy middle managers and so on, but this is the first time that I've heard a Google engineer (ok an ex Google engineer) say that its <i>software</i> is bloated and ugly (and more importantly, not getting fixed - see the bits on the rewards structure encouraging territoriality leading to rejection of patches.)<p>Mind blowing.