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Jeff Dean invented MapReduce and Bigtable. Say what you want about their later years, but Dean and Ghemawat deserve their title of engineer.
by FabCH 1mo ago
Jeff Dean invented MapReduce and Bigtable.
Say what you want about their later years, but Dean and Ghemawat deserve their title of engineer.
- grapeorangesoda 1mo agoThey wrote the paper, they did not build it. Gemini (stolen technology they had nothing to do with) says: Jeff and Sanjay led the development, but they collaborated with a small team of engineers to build and refine the database. So, who were the engineers who actually built it? It lists "Fay Chang, Howard Gobioff, Mike Burrows, Wilson Hsieh, Deborah Wallach" but Idk if it's accurate. I know that these talentless managers didn't do anything, that's for sure
- FabCH 1mo agoIIRC Sanjay was literally never a manager and Jeff was not a manager until like a decade after MapReduce was built. And of course they didn’t build it alone, that’s the point of companies and teams.