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Yes, it is, there's a translation table for xooglers too: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg The only real difference there (although it is a significant one) is that most of those internal Google tools tended to be very good, often ahead of the external state-of-the-art. That's a very different feeling to a baroque old stack inside a bank somewhere. Maybe the external world has caught up on a bunch of them more recently though which would start to change that.

https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg has a broader list

"lookup table of similar technology and services to help ex-googlers survive the real world" https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

> eventually people who have worked at google are going to have more trouble getting jobs elsewhere when all the tools they've worked with are things that nobody outside of google has heard of This has already happened. Many companies offer dictionaries to translate the names of Google tools to their tools. Open source ones exist as well: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg An issue I’ve ran into is startups being very hesitant of hiring Googlers because of a perception that they can’t engineer without other teams of developers supporting all of their tooling. One startup specifically asked how to create a dashboard without using Plx - a wild question given the vast OSS dashboarding ecosystem - but it was still a concern to them.

What about Mendel and Streamz? I don't see those in https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

> Do programmers in Google not use Google to search questions? Not really. Google has an excellent intranet search engine and mostly relies on in-house tools instead of commercial services (see https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg). As a result its employees don't really need to rely on Stack Overflow, etc.

Also, see https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg, a list of open source alternatives to internal Google tech stacks.

You might be interested in this table table mapping internal tools/technology at Google to public equivalents: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

When you left a company to move another one, what is the largest loss from the last job? We've often heard about ex-Google folks miss its internal infrastructure. Fine, but I can look for somewhere else on that [1]. How about other companies? Ex-of other FAANG companies? Startups? Good old enterprises? Whre do yo come from and what do you miss? For example: I missed the internal blogging culture when I moved from small Tokyo-based tech firm to a US-based big co (although I never missed the long working hours). There must be a virtue each company has. I'd love to hear your stories. (But let's not talk about money for now. It's probably not very interesting.) Thanks! [1] https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

I found this super useful. It has a bit more suggestions than the article. https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

Refreshing article! For people with less time check out https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg which tracks open source implementations of Google internal tools (also linked in the article) Also I have been looking to move away from Makefiles and bash scripts and Bazel does come up more often. What are your experiences working it and how does it compare to Blaze?

:) https://github.com/jhuangtw-dev/xg2xg