rcleveng
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
(I can't tell from PostTypeId = 1)
I noticed bills for both Workspace and GitHub (admittedly small amounts for Workspace, less small for GitHub)
Risk is ensuring enough security researchers are finding these and quarantining these before that default cooldown lapses.
Clearcase was way ahead of it's time, the main issues there were really just cost (mostly licensing cost, and a little on how many sun servers you needed to serve it and keep state of the vobs)
Perforce was way ahead of it's time, everyone still wants a monotonically increasing changelist identifier too.
The guy who ran that project called it his "$LASTNAME law" that every large company will at some point write their own source control system.
I laughed.
About a year later I went to Google, and within a couple of years Google also did the same thing.
Not at all surprised. Git was just good enough (and cheap enough) the companies didn't need to do this to escape the {phsyical scaling, cost scaling} problems that most commercial SCM systems had.
Likewise while at Google, they didn't let us put Google Voice numbers down as our oncall phone number. Some folks even had multiple phones on different networks as backups.
I'm sure they have either other SOTA models or open source models around to help if things to completely pear shaped.
I don't see that changing for any of the large companies unfortunately, anytime soon.
Any mirror?