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Though I agree some Google products are great, but cloud industry lacks standardized APIs allowing to switch between products. E.g. in the past we had OpenGL,
by jakozaur 10y ago
Though I agree some Google products are great, but cloud industry lacks standardized APIs allowing to switch between products.
E.g. in the past we had OpenGL, PC which spur a lot of innovation and created whole industries. Common subset that allows seamless migrations.
E.g. I wish we have standard for big table like databases:
1. Google Cloud BigTable.
2. DynamoDB.
3. HBase/Cassandra.
- milesward 10y agoI'm with you! We didn't want to ship yet another one so Cloud BigTable uses the HBase API: https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/bigtable-and-hbase https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/bigtable-and-hbase
- jakozaur 10y agoKudos for doing that. I didn't realized about it. Common API even in non-perfect way is so much better than everybody reinventing the wheel from scratch, because some tiny use case doesn't fit in the previous API.
- agentgt 10y agoI'm not sure this will ever be possible considering even switching to different RDBMS that do have a standard (SQL) is usually non trivial. BTW when people say cloud here I assume they mean PaaS and not IaaS because IaaS has many standards (openstack).