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BigQuery is a truly fully-managed service. This means that SREs are on call 24/7. It's not software that one downloads. Hence it really doesn't make a lot of se
by vgt 11y ago
BigQuery is a truly fully-managed service. This means that SREs are on call 24/7. It's not software that one downloads. Hence it really doesn't make a lot of sense to have it available to just a few folks, incremental overhead is low.
I'd love to hear industry standards around deprecation of paid services. This is really a way of doing business in the entire world, and I'm not sure why Google is being held to an unreasonable and impossible standard of "never deprecate anything ever!". For example, here is Microsoft's:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Microsoft_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Microsof...
- awqrre 11y agoI was not blaming anybody, it's possible that a service would be more valuable to a company if it's kept internally.
- vgt 11y agoAh yes, point well taken. I think we've seen this historically at Google, but things have changed in the past few years.
- ignoramous 11y agoPrimarily as a reaction to AWS and Azure? Google announced Colossus in 2011, is that going to make it to GCP?
- vgt 11y agoYou can use Colossus today! It's a very low level service, leveraged by other GCP services. For example, Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery Storage both sit on Colossus. Read more on BQ here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/bigquery-under-the-hood https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/bigquery-unde...