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How much does the experience of your first 15 minutes really matter when you're picking a platform for the next several years?
by saryant 10y ago
How much does the experience of your first 15 minutes really matter when you're picking a platform for the next several years?
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- toredash 10y agoI would say quite a bit. If it takes 15min to get up and running, any major change at Google would still only require a new 15min to get to know the new system. If you need a month to properly get to know AWS, any major change will most likely cause another month of getting to know the new system. Or it could go the other way. No certainty there
- michaelt 10y agoI would say if you're going to be locked in to one vendor for 15 years, at the start before you're locked in is the /only/ time the experience matters :)
- pacala 10y agoA lot. We're running a small <10 team on a tight budget, we don't have time [or money] to waste. Looking towards the next several years: * https://cloud.google.com/container-engine https://cloud.google.com/container-engine [docker in the cloud] * https://cloud.google.com/bigquery https://cloud.google.com/bigquery [sql for analytics] * https://cloud.google.com/ml https://cloud.google.com/ml [tensor flow] * https://cloud.google.com/dataflow https://cloud.google.com/dataflow [2nd gen map-reduce] * https://cloud.google.com/bigtable https://cloud.google.com/bigtable [large scale semi-structured storage] * https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms [cheap VMs] * https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networks-and-firewalls https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networks-and-firewalls [fast networks] Quite a lot of Google's infrastructure crown jewels have become part of their Cloud offering. Not sure where to start looking for competing AWS services, forget about looking closer at design / docs / scale / reliability. [xGoogler here, used to work on GCP]