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>Do think from a business standpoint not sure why Google would give up the K8s brand but it is good for everyone. Because with Borg they only had an advantage
by LamaOfRuin 8y ago
>Do think from a business standpoint not sure why Google would give up the K8s brand but it is good for everyone.
Because with Borg they only had an advantage with their own products' operations. That's nice, in that they are able to maintain a decent amount of technical superiority and have their product reliability be leading or tied for first, but it's not a clear line between this and them generating more revenue. They want their cloud offering to compete with AWS and Azure, which is why they want K8s to gain mindshare. GCE has huge potential for growth and significant switching costs; meaning they need to get new products on it sooner rather than later, and developer mindshare is the way to do that.
- jacksmith21006 8y agoI listen to a interview with a higher level Googler that explained why and it made a ton of sense to me. They were tired of writing something up as a paper and then someone implemented as OSS and then companies and engineers knew the OSS implementation instead of their own. So instead do a OSS version and then drive what everyone learns. I found this a bit funny. One solution would have been to not write the papers. But so glad Google does. Spend a lot of time on their research site. https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
- pjmlp 8y agoStill not as much as Microsoft Research.
- cromwellian 8y agoQuantity != Quality though. Arguably, a lot of Google published research papers have spawned entire software categories. The original papers on Map/Reduce, Bigtable, Dremel, Dapper, Spanner, directly spawned a bunch of successful open source implementation projects as well as companies.
- jacksmith21006 8y agoGoogle papers have fundamentally changed the industry.