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Based on how Google is quick to mothball products, I can't honestly trust the GCP for production-grade services. Unfortunately, there's not much the Cloud team

by urda 8y ago

Based on how Google is quick to mothball products, I can't honestly trust the GCP for production-grade services. Unfortunately, there's not much the Cloud team at Google can do. Google as a whole needs to demonstrate long-term support in a superior fashion before I can trust their products for building my products. Why is this getting downvoted? Provide some input on it, has Google suddenly stopped killing projects that are in their infancy? Why should I entrust my platform to that behavior? Anything instead of just mass downvoting. HN you're better than this.

Jedi72 8y ago
My trust of Google is so low, whenever I read a HN thread which is mostly supportive of them I assume they're using paid shills. Even on HN.
- urda 8y ago
  I don't care to "hunt" for shills anyway, but it's real frustrating to make a comment against Google, get hit for it, and the best "response" is a wall of text just making it "OK" for them to kill products off left and right early. As if this company-wide behavior should just be discounted because "Google". There's a reason they are 3rd in cloud tech.
dajonker 8y ago
You're getting downvoted because you don't base your statement on anything. Google sometimes cancels Early Access or Alpha stage products. Beta products may change before they are made Generally Available (GA), but I cannot personally remember any beta product being significantly changed or cancelled before GA. Any GA product will be stable for quite some time, you will get at least a 1 year notice before they deprecate anything, as can be read from their terms: https://cloud.google.com/terms/ https://cloud.google.com/terms/ section 7. But I understand hat some customers require enterprisey products that stay exactly the same for at least 10 years, and a 1 year notice might not be enough to make adjustments.

by urda 8y ago

Jedi72 8y ago

My trust of Google is so low, whenever I read a HN thread which is mostly supportive of them I assume they're using paid shills. Even on HN.

urda 8y ago
I don't care to "hunt" for shills anyway, but it's real frustrating to make a comment against Google, get hit for it, and the best "response" is a wall of text just making it "OK" for them to kill products off left and right early. As if this company-wide behavior should just be discounted because "Google". There's a reason they are 3rd in cloud tech.

dajonker 8y ago

You're getting downvoted because you don't base your statement on anything. Google sometimes cancels Early Access or Alpha stage products. Beta products may change before they are made Generally Available (GA), but I cannot personally remember any beta product being significantly changed or cancelled before GA. Any GA product will be stable for quite some time, you will get at least a 1 year notice before they deprecate anything, as can be read from their terms: https://cloud.google.com/terms/ https://cloud.google.com/terms/ section 7. But I understand hat some customers require enterprisey products that stay exactly the same for at least 10 years, and a 1 year notice might not be enough to make adjustments.