I spent 7 years at Google and Facebook. Then I rebuilt their infrastructure for everyone.
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The developer infrastructure at Google and Facebook is a decade ahead of anything outside. I'm not exaggerating. Ex-Googlers maintain a lookup table just to map internal tools to external equivalents, because the gap is that wide. Steve Yegge, who worked at both Google and Amazon, put it plainly: "Nobody had done dev tools right, and only Google has gotten close."
When I left, it felt like going from a sports car to a bicycle.
So I rebuilt it. The parts that matter for app development, anyway. And I made it free.