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I just want to serve 5 terabytes.

Benjamin Staffin · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Satire & parodyCloud, DevOps & reliabilityManagement, leadership & organizations

What it is

A short satirical video, originally titled Broccoli Man, in which an engineer who only wants to serve 5 terabytes gets tangled in Google's internal resource and production processes. It is the source of the phrase about forgetting how to count that low.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Used as a shorthand joke for Google-scale bureaucracy and the difficulty of simple tasks at large companies.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Have you seen the Broccoli Man short?”

    Satire of Google infrastructure circa 2010

    nostrademons, 2024-07 · Recommendation · in “Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available”

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Topics: google, satire, infrastructure, bureaucracy, broccoli man

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