alt Hacker News> The engineers are pressured to significantly reduce "dependencies" for projects.
Is a major factor of this Google's tendency to kill entire products, so you obviously don't want to make your hot new thing dependent on some other internal thing that might be killed off?
Interestingly there is less opportunity for that to happen.
Most of the internal infrastructure is quite available and stable, and there are clear choices for almost all of your application-level and backend-level needs.