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I think this is called maturity. GCP finally knows who the target customer is, and they're building features for them. DO has really nice and simple UI, but try
by doh 9y ago
I think this is called maturity. GCP finally knows who the target customer is, and they're building features for them. DO has really nice and simple UI, but try to spin 5,000 servers and you will see what a hot mess it is.
GCP shines at a very large scale. For us, what makes the difference, is the spending predictability and massive discounts coming from running preemptible servers or simply committing to certain usage.
GCP is not as service rich as AWS, but most of the offered services are capable of withstanding incredible loads. In our case, while running on tens of thousands of mostly preemptible servers[0], we couldn't pull this off anywhere else (trust me, we've tried).
It's great to know which service works for your loads and make the best of it.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726224
- mark_l_watson 9y ago+1 you said what I was going to say. GCP probably doesn’t want the business of small web sites and portals. I think that under Diane Green they have a clear vision of who their target (large/huge) customer base should be and what they need to do to attract those customers. For small projects, especially when I am paying the bills, it is difficult to beat OVH and DigitalOcean on costs. That said, GCP is still my favorite provider, largely because using GCP makes me a little nostalgic for the time I worked as a contractor at Google - really enjoyed their infrastructure.
- doh 9y agoI hear you. Miss most of the tools and infrastructure every day since I left. I was ecstatic when they made PubSub available to everyone. Wish they would expose more of the internal services, especially Colossus, Dremel, Borg, ...
- dekhn 9y agodremel = bigquery, borg = GKE.
- doh 9y agoYes, those are using the technologies underneath the hood, but are not them itself. I would like to have access to them directly as I would like to build other things at top of them
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- dekhn 9y agonot really. BigQuery is for all intents and purposes an instance of Dremel running for cloud users. And GKE is effectively a clone of borg, rather than an instance of it- which is great. It sounds like what you want is a job at Google...
- doh 9y agoOh really. Then please add some vectors to BigQuery and run the query on it.
- kgilpin 9y ago+1 The real money in the cloud business is in the Fortune 1000, not the small fry. 5 years ago it was only startups and Netflix using the cloud. Now the battle is on between AWS, Azure and Google to be the “new data center”.
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