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> There's a reason why AWS oncalls are infamous whereas Google's are not. Could market share be a significant factor here?
by stepbeek 5y ago
> There's a reason why AWS oncalls are infamous whereas Google's are not.
Could market share be a significant factor here?
- ayberk 5y agoIt really isn't. It's just the cultural difference between the two companies. I have been told that GCP oncalls are a lot busier than rest of the Google, but it's still nowhere close to the suffering I had at AWS. It's an organizational pain and comes from the mindset AWS has towards software development and their engineers.
- amzn-throw 5y agoAWS's mindset is software is useless without customers. Google doesn't seem to have the same care - it's a charity for academic software engineers to spend AdSense revenue on abstract high level computer science problems not caring about practical applications. It's why most Google X ideas flame out. It's why there's a new chat app every year. But - it's a net positive for humanity. Google publishes a lot of papers, and I think genuinely has moved humanity forward in the last few decades. I don't have a PhD and I don't do L33tcode, so I don't think I'm smart enough to be at Google, but honestly I don't know if I would want to be. I prefer shipping.
- ayberk 5y agoI'm sure you're more than enough smart to be at Google :) It's just practice and luck. I completely agree that people who prefer to ship fast would be happier at AWS. I've heard all the horror stories about how slow Google is, but I think GCP has a great balance between speed and quality. I'm definitely happier here, but I understand why some people would be happier at AWS.