History
Parts of the Stack
People
Acronyms
Fun Facts
100
This product was the 1st to use SendKit
What is Photos?
100
This layer is being componentized
What is SendKit?
100
This person manages a “vegetable salad” of projects
Who is Roozbeh Nia?
100
FBS
What is Focus Backend?
100
What are lawnmowers?
200
The name of our org before it became called GPI
What is API?
200
My name is cute, but my guts are “machine learned”
What is BigHug?
200
This person played a season of professional Ultimate Frisbee
Who is Isaac Davis?
200
CUJ
What is Critical User Journey?
200
You can play this classic game if and when a YouTube video is buffering
What is Snake?
300
This product was the 1st to use BigHug
What is Gmail?
300
This layer makes sense of the data our clients need on Android
What is the Android People Data Layer (APDL)
300
This person was the designer of our People team sweaters
Who is Kai-Ting Huang?
300
GOAT
What is Greatest of all Time?
300
This is what Larry and Sergey originally named Google
What is "Backrub"?
400
This is what People Stack used to be called
What is Piggy Banks?
400
This collects client data for the stack
What is the People Write Server (PWS)?
400
This person played bagpipes in Madison Square Garden + Yankee Stadium
Who is Eva Schooling?
400
GDPR
What is General Data Protection Regulation?
400
The year the word “Google” was added as a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary
What is the year 2006?
500
This product was the 1st to use the Populous API directly
What is Inbox?
500
This team owns the sharing of personal identity and connecting it to others
What is the Pisco team?
500
This person used to DJ techno parties in college
Who is Sandy Roberts?
500
J2CL
What is Java to Closure Javascript?
500
This infrastructure connects over 160M multiplayer actions on Google products each day!
What is the People Stack?