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Google's support for a multi-cloud vision would be a lot more meaningful if they were offering the open source alternatives as part of their cloud platform and
by jssmith 10y ago
Google's support for a multi-cloud vision would be a lot more meaningful if they were offering the open source alternatives as part of their cloud platform and contributing to their development. Google has done so in a few key cases (Kubernetes and Tensorflow), but in other areas it's hard to get comfortable with the belief that there will be smooth transition to other infrastructure.
- troymc 10y agoYou've got a point. BigTable is an example; they've never open-sourced it and instead other OSS projects (notably the Hadoop ones) were inspired by it. Other examples are GFS, Colossus, Spanner and F1. The OSS analogue of GFS is HDFS (AFAIK), but I know of nothing equivalent to the others. (CockroachDB is a bit like Spanner, but is much more pragmatic about its clocks.)