If you want to know whether a product is any good, ask yourself whether the company or its officers would use it.
For example, for many years, Hotmail servers ran BSD, because Microsoft knew better than to run a critical service on Windows servers.
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I remember something about a campells soup (or other soup?) executive saying that they won't even eat their own companies product because it was gross and for poor people. I guess they tried it one day and were disgusted by it. But they'll keep selling it because $$$.
That was Campbell’s soup. I so happened to have a cold recently and I actually missed having Campbell’s soup as a kid when I was sick (despite kind of despising canned foods now) but decided to buy Amy’s Kitchen soups instead when I recalled that article.
To be fair, Hotmail wasn't built by them to begin with. Wasn't it an acquisition?
Yes it was. But as far as I remember, they tried to migrate to Windows and gave up?
google doesn't dogfood k8s. It helps fuel my conspiracy that k8s is a premature scaling trap to saddle the startup competition with 300-500k worth of devops spend each.
google doesn't dogfood k8s
Google uses Borg internally. k8s is for outsiders.
Not many do, I'd imagine.
Did you take your pills today?
as another tech worked, that was a real sentence.
dog food is gesturing at the idea that you should eat your own dog food. The idea being if it's so high quality, you eat it yourselves.
k8s is a technology that scales servers. it's a bitch and a half to run smoothly, and takes a team (read lots of money) to wrestle.
Just because you don't understand what I said doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with me, believe it or not.
Hotmail was purchased. They converted it to the product that became exchange online, one of the best products they make.
That's not a high bar
Let’s be honest the more likely reason is just to keep the data of their own private lives, you know Private
Don't get high on your own supply as they say.