On: How Google’s Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Internet

[igrigorik]

That's not a joke - it's true... The joke part of it is in: there are two types of systems at Google, the ones that are deprecated, and the ones that are not yet ready for production.

[btilly → igrigorik]

That's not a joke either. Inside of Google you can ask anyone whether a particular API is the version that's deprecated or not ready yet, and they will always know which one it is.

Try it.

[GauntletWizard → btilly]

Occasionally there're ones that're both; The worst case is when they're both, and also key parts of production infrastructure.

[jamesaguilar → GauntletWizard]

On the plus side, when the next thing fails to materialize for long enough, we do occasionally undeprecate the last thing.