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 , Database of Databases , Google Open Source Glossary
Google Internal
Google External
Open Source / Real-World
MapReduce
Apache Hadoop , Spark
Flume DataFlow Apache Beam
Protocol Buffer
Protobuf Cap'n Proto , Thrift , Avro , Amazon Ion , CBOR , kryo
Stubby
gRPC Thrift , Bolt
Chubby
Apache Zookeeper , etcd , HashiCorp Consul
Goops / PubSub
Apache Kafka , Apache Pulsar , Facebook LogDevice
//baseabseil
Google Internal
Google External
Open Source / Real-World
Borg
Kubernetes Apache Mesos , Apache Aurora , HashiCorp Nomad
GSLB
Cloud Load Balancing - InternalAWS ELB, Istio , envoy , linkerd
OnePlatform
API Gateway Swagger
GFE, Maglev, uberproxy
Cloud Load Balancing - HTTPS / ExternalAWS ALB, HAProxy , nginx , F5
uberproxy (sso proxy)
Identity-Aware Proxy buzzfeed-sso , Pomerium
Zanzibar
Zanzibar Research Paper SpiceDB , Ory Keto
data center hardware
open compute
Jupiter, Starblaze
B4, Stargate, TE
USPS, Andromeda
ESDN
Faucet
broccoli man
Google Internal
Google External
Open Source / Real-World
GFS/Colossus
HDFS, Ceph , GlusterFS , MooseFS
BigTable
Cloud BigTable PrestoDB , Cassandra , HBase , Accumulo , DynamoDB , ScyllaDB
Spanner Cloud Spanner Vitess , CockroachDB , TiDB
ColumnIO / Capacitor
Apache Parquet , ORC
sstable
levelDB RocksDB , pebble
zippy
Snappy lz4
RecordIO
Riegeli , TFRecords , & in OR-Tools , szl stuffed-record-stream
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 , OpenSearch , Solr, Lucenealgolia
pubsub
pubsub NATS.io , RabbitMQ , PubNub AWS SQS/SNS, AWS AppSync
MillWheel Cloud Dataflow Apache Flink , beam
Colab
Colaboratory Jupyter Observable
PLX
Google Data Studio Mode
Monarch
paper
Napa
paper
Google Internal
Google External
Real-World
Assimilator
Dominator
Blaze
Bazel Buck , Pants , please.build , Blade , recc , BuildBuddy , flare.build
Oncall
PagerDuty , OpsGenie , VictorOps
varz/borgmon/monarch
Datadog , Prometheus , M3 , librato , newrelic , skylight, scout, Scotty /tricorder , netdata , bosun , also this and this
Viceroy
Grafana
Exception/Error Tracking (thirdeye)
Sentry.io, Raygun.io, Rollbar , Honeybadger, Airbrake, OverOps, ELK stack
styleguides
google styleguides PEP-8 , HoundCI auto-style-reviewer
Sponge
EngFlow
Blaze/Forge/TAP/BuildCop
Cloud Build buildkite , CircleCI , travis , jenkins , gitlabCI , github , Drone
Forge/ObjFS
EngFlow , flare.build
Sandman(test env)/Guitar
Sisyphus / Rapid
Spinnaker , lambdaCD , screwdriver.cd, CodeShip , shipit-engine , GoCD , AWS CodeDeploy , Capistrano , Fabric , ConcourseCI , samson
MPM
Docker
borg / borgcfg / gcl
Jsonnet , Cue AWS Cloudformation , Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Terraform , kubecfg , pulumi , Nix
logging, analog
StackDriver logstash , fluentd , PaperTrail , cernan
CodeSearch, Grimoire
Zoekt kythe Sourcegraph , OpenGrok , livegrep
Critique, Gerrit, Mondrian etc.
Gerrit Reviewable , Phabricator
cider
Eclipse Che , Cloud9 , gitpod.io , Coder , Code-Server (VSCode in a Tab)
buganizer
Google Issue Tracker JIRA , bugzilla , github issues, Linear
Bugjuggler
SnoozeThis
ToTT
Google Test Blog Increment
Copybara / MOE
Copybara , MOE
workflow/dependency management
Luigi , Airflow , digdag , Pachyderm , Dask
ErrorProne
ErrorProne SpotBugs , FindBugs
Dapper stackdriver trace zipkin , opentracing , jaeger , LightStep , Honeycomb
C++ Tips of the Week
Abseil C++ Tips of the Week
DiRT ChaosMonkey , aws fis
Rosie microplane , silver-platter
API Improvements Proposals
AIP
Google Internal
Real-World
software engineering at google 1 , 2
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
SRE @ google
valentine
Vault , 1Password , Lastpass , pass
OWNERS files in repo
github CODEOWNERS
snippets
Khan/snippets
SnipIt
recordit , CloudApp , dropbox screenshots , Snippyly
stuff (SaaS IT management)
productiv , intello , zylo
stuff (Device Management)
Fleetsmith , jamf
device security monitoring
Red Canary
beyondcorp
beyondcorp
go/ links golinks , go , Goat , trotto , go-shorten
google3 philosophy
innersource , monorepo
doing code review
code review
safely sharing 1-time secrets
croc , onetimesecret , privatebin
messaging
mattermost , Slack , gchat
tech talks
TechTalks @ Google
g3doc
writethedocs , docs-as-code
GUTS
spoke
Google Internal
Real-World
OKR CultureAmp OKR , Lattice Goals , Ally , workboard
HRIS/ERP
Namely , BambooHR , Workday , Paylocity
peer bonus bonus.ly
kudos
heytaco , slack ++ bot
perks
fond
talks
Talks @ Google
dory
slido
edge, people ops training
LifeLabs
googlegeist
Culture Amp , humu , tinypulse , peakon
Meng
Search Inside Yourself
Lazlo
Work Rules
Claire Stapleton
Tech Support - existential advice for the modern tech worker
books about google
How Google Works , In The Plex
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