The Jeff Dean Canon

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-jeff-dean-canon. A primary-source reading guide to Jeff Dean’s 27 years at Google, from distributed systems and AI infrastructure to Discovery Loop. Check more stories related to tech-companies at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-companies. You can also check exclusive content about #google, #engineering, #history-of-the-internet, #jeff-dean, #discovery-loop, #google-spanner, #word2vec, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @mtrifiro. Learn more about this writer by checking @mtrifiro's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Jeff Dean’s work repeatedly removed infrastructure bottlenecks that limited technical progress—from MapReduce and Spanner to distributed AI, sparse models, and accelerators. This verified reading list traces that arc and explains why Discovery Loop, his new venture in automating scientific experimentation, is a logical next step.