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Google's search foundations were built on a private cloud, in contrast to the prevailing architecture of that time. Google never denied the utility of building
by arebop 8y ago
Google's search foundations were built on a private cloud, in contrast to the prevailing architecture of that time. Google never denied the utility of building abstractions over commoditized machines the way Microsoft denied the heterogeneity and decentralized aspects of the Internet.
IMO, Google was just too focused on solving problems for human beings vs. outside institutions; that's why they neglected to invest in making Borg into a public platform.
- romed 8y agoBorg can’t be a public product. Look at the way people complain how hard it is to use EC2 then multiply by a large factor. No isolation, sudden death, zero local I/O resources. It’s technically marvelous and dirt cheap but the masses aren’t ready for it.
- jpatokal 8y agoWhich is why Kubernetes/GKE is the public version of Borg.