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Remembering When the 'N' in FAANG Wasn't Controversial
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Remembering When the 'N' in FAANG Wasn't Controversial

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A popular meme format known as 'Sure Grandma, Let's Get You to Bed'. The image depicts a young woman gently guiding an elderly woman who is using a walker. Text overlaid on the elderly woman reads, 'The N in FAANG was for Netflix'. The younger woman has a caption saying, 'Sure grandma let's get you to bed'. There is a small watermark for '@CramerTracker' at the bottom. The humor stems from the rapid evolution of the tech industry, where the once-ubiquitous FAANG acronym (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) is now considered outdated by many, due to company name changes (Meta, Alphabet) and shifts in market dominance. The meme implies that remembering the original composition of FAANG is like recalling a bygone era, a relatable feeling for senior engineers who have witnessed numerous industry trends come and go

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick A junior dev asked me what FAANG was. I told them it's the legacy system for describing the companies that now run on the MAMAA architecture
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    A junior dev asked me what FAANG was. I told them it's the legacy system for describing the companies that now run on the MAMAA architecture

  2. Anonymous

    Some of us still have a ‘faang-legacy-n’ microservice in production - deleting it breaks half the CI pipeline

  3. Anonymous

    Remember when we thought Netflix's microservices architecture was peak innovation? Now we're debugging why their stock price throws more exceptions than a junior's first async/await implementation

  4. Anonymous

    The real joke is that by the time we all agreed on what FAANG stood for, half the companies had rebranded, one pivoted to the metaverse, and Netflix became the cautionary tale we use in system design interviews about what happens when you don't scale your architecture to match your ambitions. Now we're all pretending 'MAMAA' was the acronym we used all along, like renaming a legacy service to make it sound cloud-native

  5. Anonymous

    FAANG's N was Netflix - until Mag7 swapped it for NVDA; grandma's acronym just needed a GPU refresh

  6. Anonymous

    FAANG got hotpatched to NVDA without a major version bump - no wonder my Chaos Monkey talk is now classified as legacy

  7. Anonymous

    FAANG is a semverless API - someone swapped Netflix for Nvidia and shipped a breaking change with no deprecation window; fortunately our resumes still maintain backward compatibility

  8. Yuri 2y

    What is it now then?

    1. @MDSPro 2y

      opeNai 😂

      1. @MDSPro 2y

        Damn, it was supposed to be a joke 😊

    2. @chertoliy 2y

      Netscape👴🏻

    3. @kitbot256 2y

      Nvidia?

  9. @deerspangle 2y

    It was always such an odd one out

    1. @Supuhstar 2y

      Was it?

      1. @deerspangle 2y

        Shunting around video data is gonna be big bandwidth, doesn't seem as big a deal as the others of the collection

        1. @Supuhstar 2y

          That chart is solely shunting around video data, and includes ANG lol

          1. @deerspangle 2y

            That's my point? That shunting around video data puts you big in that chart, but isn't necessarily groundbreaking work

            1. @Supuhstar 2y

              Yea but it does show that Netflix was shunting around much more than Google and Amazon were, meaning they had more and more engaged customers than the rest of the online entertainment industry

      2. @callofvoid0 2y

        what's disney+?

        1. @endisn16h 2y

          streaming service

  10. @pulsar_sp 2y

    (I think we're getting banned)

  11. @L33TGraceful 2y

    |2

  12. dev_meme 2y

    nvidia

  13. @Freewalkr 2y

    i guess it's NiggeJS 2

  14. Deleted Account 2y

    Maang

    1. dev_meme 2y

      *Manga

      1. Deleted Account 2y

        Holy

  15. Алексей 2y

    What shitty netflix had even forgotten into FAANG?

  16. Deleted Account 2y

    Nokia

  17. @NiKryukov 2y

    vkoNtakte

  18. @deerspangle 2y

    It's all arbitrary anyway, doesn't matter so much

    1. @Supuhstar 2y

      Yeh

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