<story><title>Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine</title><url>https://www.oath.com/press/open-sourcing-vespa-yahoo-s-big-data-processing-and-serving-eng/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>Yahoo time and again releases open source software which is super super helpful to the community at large. But it always makes me wonder why an org with such an amazing engg culture (multiple anecdotes from friends who were at Yahoo, plus the amazing experiences at Yahoo OpenHack each year as a testament to this) could be run into the ground.&lt;p&gt;Really goes to show that engg != business and unless you have a firm business model and growth, an amazing engg team can only get you so far.&lt;p&gt;I know I&amp;#x27;m just stating the obvious, but just putting it out there!&lt;p&gt;Vespa looks super interesting (more so since I&amp;#x27;m in a company that provides ecommerce search APIs as a product) and I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;ll play with it more. Thanks Yahoo! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gyehuda</author><text>The Register did a good job describing the dichotomy between the product business and the tech side of the business here, related to a previous open source project Yahoo published (disclaimer, I run the open source process at Yahoo) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;yahoo_tensorflow_on_spark&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;yahoo_tensorflow_on...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Over the decades Yahoo! has contributed substantially to the greater good, publishing its own code as open source.&lt;p&gt;Arguably Yahoo!’s greatest legacy once it is a division of Verizon will be big data, after one of its engineers – Doug Cutting – wrote an open-source implementation of Google’s MapReduce that became Hadoop. What followed was an entire ecosystem of startups and projects crunching data at scale – Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR to name three in a market some calculate will be worth $50bn by 2020.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine</title><url>https://www.oath.com/press/open-sourcing-vespa-yahoo-s-big-data-processing-and-serving-eng/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>Yahoo time and again releases open source software which is super super helpful to the community at large. But it always makes me wonder why an org with such an amazing engg culture (multiple anecdotes from friends who were at Yahoo, plus the amazing experiences at Yahoo OpenHack each year as a testament to this) could be run into the ground.&lt;p&gt;Really goes to show that engg != business and unless you have a firm business model and growth, an amazing engg team can only get you so far.&lt;p&gt;I know I&amp;#x27;m just stating the obvious, but just putting it out there!&lt;p&gt;Vespa looks super interesting (more so since I&amp;#x27;m in a company that provides ecommerce search APIs as a product) and I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;ll play with it more. Thanks Yahoo! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hypertexthero</author><text>Yes.&lt;p&gt;Steve Jobs responding to a question about OpenDoc in 1997:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mikecanex.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;wwdc-1997-video-steve-jobs-handles-a-public-insult&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mikecanex.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;wwdc-1997-video-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>