Jeff Dean Legend: Production Services Once Ran on a Cron Job on His Desktop
_arohan_ · x · 2026-08-07
Tech circles circulate many exaggerated jokes about Google's legendary engineer Jeff Dean. Kenton Varda shared a real-life 'Jeff Dean fact': Jeff Dean once went on a two-week vacation, causing his Kerberos credentials to expire, which led to the realization that many production services depended on a cron job running on his desktop (specifically, the global Protobuf DB).
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