[TheAceOfHearts]

Alphabet employed a total of 118,899 people in 2019 [0], out of which 114,096 were at Google [1]. I've never worked at such a large tech company, but I imagine there's tons of challenges with coordination at their scale. I'd conjecture that Google behaves like a distributed system because that's how it actually operates internally. There probably isn't a single orchestration node responsible for all project launches.

Heck, Google is so big that they're often in direct competition with their other services and products. For example, they're currently developing three different operating systems: Android, Chrome OS, and Fuschia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

[flarg]

Totally. Accenture has more than 500k people and they have a mess of duplicated service offerings started by the strategy and consulting teams and the ones with most sales go on their website for as long as they survive.

[chrisco255]

That explains Hangouts, Duo and Allo.

[alephnan]

I guess my question would be: why have the orchestration problem to begin with

See, Apple is big and I’m sure they have a plethora of internal products too. At least on the consumer front, it’s not so confusing.

[tbodt]

*Fuchsia