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
| 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 |
| Google Internal | Google External | Open Source / Real-World |
|---|---|---|
| Borg | Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, Apache Aurora, HashiCorp Nomad | |
| GSLB, GFE, Maglev, uberproxy | ELB, HAProxy, Istio, F5, envoy | |
| uberproxy (sso proxy) | buzzfeed-sso | |
| data center hardware | open compute | |
| Jupiter, Starblaze | ||
| B4, Stargate, TE | ||
| USPS, Andromeda |
| Google Internal | Google External | Open Source / Real-World |
|---|---|---|
| GFS/Colossus | HDFS, Ceph, GlusterFS | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Google Internal | Google External | Real-World |
|---|---|---|
| Assimilator | Dominator | |
| Blaze | Bazel | Buck, Pants, please.build, Blade, recc |
| Oncall | PagerDuty, OpsGenie, VictorOps | |
| varz/borgmon/monarch | Datadog, Prometheus, M3, librato, newrelic, skylight, scout, Scotty/tricorder, netdata, also this and this | |
| Exception/Error Tracking (??) | Sentry.io, Raygun.io, Rollbar, Honeybadger, Airbrake, OverOps | |
| styleguides | google styleguides | PEP-8, HoundCI auto-style-reviewer |
| Blaze/Forge/TAP/BuildCop | Cloud Build | buildkite, CircleCI, travis, jenkins, gitlabCI, github |
| Sandman(test env)/Guitar | ||
| Sisyphus / Rapid | Spinnaker, lambdaCD, screwdriver.cd, CodeShip, shipit-engine, GoCD, AWS CodeDeploy, Capistrano, Fabric, ConcourseCI | |
| borg / borgcfg / gcl | AWS Cloudformation, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Terraform, Jsonnet, kubecfg, pulumi | |
| logging | StackDriver | logstash, fluentd, papertrail, cernan |
| CodeSearch | Zoekt | Sourcegraph, OpenGrok |
| Critique, Gerrit, Mondrian etc. | Gerrit | Reviewable , Phabricator |
| cider | Eclipse Che, Cloud9, gitpod.io, Coder, Code-Server (VSCode in a Tab) | |
| buganizer | JIRA, bugzilla, github issues | |
| ToTT | Google Test Blog | Increment |
| Copybara / MOE | Copybara, MOE | |
| workflow/dependency management | luigi, airflow, digdag, packyderm, dask | |
| ErrorProne | ErrorProne | SpotBugs, FindBugs |
| dapper (distributed trace) | stackdriver trace | zipkin, opentracing, jaeger |
| Google Internal | Google External | Open Source |
|---|---|---|
| prodaccess/LOAS | Keymaster | |
| prod secrets/identity management | chamber, knox, SPIFFE |
| Google Internal | Real-World |
|---|---|
| software engineering at google | |
| valentine | 1Password, Lastpass, pass |
| OWNERS files in repo | github CODEOWNERS |
| snippets | Khan/snippets |
| memegen | memegen |
| 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 |
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