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by leros 1246 days ago
Is there an example of a company like Google getting broken up? It sounds like a nightmare from a technical point of view. Microservices from different divisions all using each other. Numerous divisions at Google sharing internal tools. All sorts of stuff that seems difficult to tease apart.
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I guess AT&T is a good classic example. This article should be a good starting point for details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System