A handy lookup table of similar technology and services to help ex-googlers survive the real world :) pull-requests very welcomed. Please do not list any confidential projects!
For a working example of (some) of these technologies integrated together, see: https://github.com/google/startup-os
See also: System Design Primer, The Hadoop Ecosystem Table, Map AWS services to GCP products
Technology
Core Technology
| Google Internal | Google External | Open Source / Real-World |
|---|---|---|
| MapReduce | Apache Hadoop, Spark | |
| Protocol Buffer | Protobuf | Cap'n Proto, Thrift, Avro, Amazon Ion, CBOR |
| Stubby | gRPC | Thrift, Bolt |
| Chubby | Apache Zookeeper, etcd, HashiCorp Consul | |
| Goops / PubSub | Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Facebook LogDevice | |
| Dapper | OpenTracing, jaeger, LightStep, Honeycomb | |
//base |
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Infrastructure
| Google Internal | Google External | Open Source / Real-World |
|---|---|---|
| Borg | Kubernetes | Apache Mesos, Apache Aurora, HashiCorp Nomad |
| GSLB | Cloud Load Balancing - Internal | AWS ELB, Istio, envoy, linkerd |
| GFE, Maglev, uberproxy | Cloud Load Balancing - HTTPS / External | AWS ALB, HAProxy, nginx, F5 |
| uberproxy (sso proxy) | Identity-Aware Proxy | buzzfeed-sso, Pomerium |
| data center hardware | open compute | |
| Jupiter, Starblaze | ||
| B4, Stargate, TE | ||
| USPS, Andromeda | ||
| ESDN | Faucet |
Storage
| Google Internal | Google External | Open Source / Real-World |
|---|---|---|
| GFS/Colossus | HDFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, MooseFS | |
| BigTable | Cloud BigTable | PrestoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Accumulo, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB |
| Spanner | Cloud Spanner | Vitess, CockroachDB, TiDB |
| ColumnIO / Capacitor | Apache Parquet | |
| sstable | levelDB | RocksDB |
| zippy | Snappy | lz4 |
| RecordIO | TFRecords |
Services
| Google Internal | Google External | Open Source | SaaS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dremel | BigQuery | Apache Drill, Presto, Spark(sort-of), | AWS Athena, Redshift Spectrum, Snowflake |
| Dremel UI | Redash, Metabase, Apache Superset | ||
| Search (Mustang, Alexandria) | Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene | algolia | |
| pubsub | pubsub | NATS.io, RabbitMQ, PubNub | AWS SQS/SNS, AWS AppSync |
| Flume (Java) | Apache Beam | Apache Crunch | |
| MillWheel | Cloud Dataflow | Apache Flink | |
| Colab | Colaboratory | Jupyter | |
| PLX | Google Data Studio | Mode |
DevOps
Security
| Google Internal | Google External | Open Source |
|---|---|---|
| prodaccess/LOAS | Keymaster | |
| prod secrets/identity management | chamber, knox, SPIFFE |
IT / Operations / Misc
| Google Internal | Real-World |
|---|---|
| software engineering at google | |
| valentine | Vault, 1Password, Lastpass, pass |
| OWNERS files in repo | github CODEOWNERS |
| snippets | Khan/snippets |
| SnipIt | recordit, CloudApp, dropbox screenshots |
| edge, people ops training | LifeLabs |
| googlegeist | Culture Amp, humu, tinypulse, peakon |
| HRIS/ERP | Namely, BambooHR, Workday |
| stuff (SaaS IT management) | productiv, intello, zylo |
| stuff (Device Management) | Fleetsmith, jamf, rippling IT |
| device security monitoring | Red Canary |
| beyondcorp | beyondcorp |
| go/ links | golinks, go, Goat, trotto |
| google3 philosophy | innersource, monorepo |
| doing code review | code review |
| safely sharing 1-time secrets | croc, onetimesecret, privatebin |
| messaging | mattermost, Slack, gchat |
| peer bonus | bonus.ly, zestful |
| kudos | heytaco, slack ++ bot |
| tech talks | TechTalks @ Google |
| talks | Talks @ Google |
| g3doc | writethedocs, docs-as-code |
also check out xoogler.co, which organizes events, slack channels etc
disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with any of the technologies mentioned above.
disclaimer: I left Google a number of years ago so some of the naming might be dated
