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Being able to sunset services is not necessarily a bad thing to the dev teams —- it might just make developers happier so they don’t have to maintain unpopular
by whoevercares 6y ago
Being able to sunset services is not necessarily a bad thing to the dev teams —- it might just make developers happier so they don’t have to maintain unpopular services and do boring work. In contrast AWS/Amazon has a huge “no one way door” culture (so sunset decision rarely happens since people will point fingers) which could impose maintenance and ownership burden for teams.
IMO DNA is different —- Amazon still has the retailer’s DNA
- sfifs 6y agoYou realise this is one of the main reasons AWS is an order of magnitude bigger than Google Cloud in revenue right?
- whoevercares 6y agoSure, I’m just trying to guess why Google choose to do things this way. What’s more, they dare to do this for some reason. On the other hand, Google’s work life balance might be order of magnitude better than Amazon. I would like to be the Boss of Amazon or an employee of Google :)
- sfifs 6y agoTheir quarterly financial filings may give you a clue... the search, YT and network ads business revenue and margins are so huge that what they do anywhere else pretty much doesn't really matter from a corporate results standpoint :-) I've both lost and hired employees to/from Google and compared to my industry, by all accounts the culture around financial discipline appears to be way less important which may explain some of what you see.
- sofixa 6y agoThat and the fact they had like 5 years of a head start.