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This post mirrors my experience as well. My muscle memory (even after 3 years) keeps going to typing "g4 opened" / "prodaccess" every now and then. I'm also glad to hear that I'm not the only one who felt this about bazel.

I think the non-availability of docker probably has kept library-versioning-sprawl in check at Google. Never had to worry about various library's compatibility with cuda versions and the hardware etc.

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Great post!

> Docker is a good example of the real world being far ahead of Google. We didn’t have a real internal equivalent.

It has been a while since my Google days, but didn't Midas / MPM packages provide some of the functionality of Docker?

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