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You Are Not Google (2017)

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2017–2024
peak thread · 572 comments
1623 pts
latest 20+ return · 2019-04-04
1623 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

First comments on top threads

HN comment order

The big issue I think we miss when people say "why are you using Dynamo, just use SQL" or "why are you using hadoop, a bash shell would be faster" or "why are you using containers and kubernetes, just host a raspberry pi in your closet": The former examples are all managed! That's amazing for scaling teams. (SQL can be managed with, say, RDS. Sure. But it's not the same level of managed as Dynamo (or Firebase or something like…

013a·1623-point thread·

I used to work at Standard and Poors. They do media monitoring for lots of financial companies. When I joined, I thought they using state of the art tools to monitor millions of sources. Turns out they just had a team of thousands in India that manually visited certain websites to check for press releases, transcripts, earnings reports, etc and push them to a database if they found them.

(2017) Still valid though, and a good read.

delogos·2-point thread·

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
2023

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
732

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2017-06-07How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's coolFirst breakoutscarhill398158
2019-04-04You Are Not Google (2017)Best thread · Latest 20+ point returngerbilly1623572
2024-07-10You Are Not Googlenickwritesit22