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A lost bet. Their user growth stalled in the past years, they could have moved at least some parts of Google Cloud without losing scalability. On the other han
by dna_polymerase 7y ago
A lost bet. Their user growth stalled in the past years, they could have moved at least some parts of Google Cloud without losing scalability.
On the other hand, it could have gone the other way around and they could have been actually in need of all the scalability Cloud Services offer. From what I have heard they messed up their interface some time after their IPO and that really hit them in the guts.