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Hubris. Steve Yegge talks about it on his podcast: https://youtu.be/9v4z46Ea35Q https://youtu.be/9v4z46Ea35Q Amazon actually works backwards like they say - t

Hubris. Steve Yegge talks about it on his podcast: https://youtu.be/9v4z46Ea35Q https://youtu.be/9v4z46Ea35Q Amazon actually works backwards like they say - they ask customers what they want, and build it. Google thinks they're smarter than everyone else so they can't comprehend that developers out there in the world want different things than the developers inside Google. You can see this permeate even in this documentary, which is ostensibly about a success - when Google actually did launch something that developers really liked - K8S. They didn't start from developer needs or wants. They started by noticing AWS was eating their lunch, and wanting to compete with them, but realizing they couldn't win by doing it directly.

ec109685 5y ago
To be fair, K8s has caught on even outside of GCP. Also, while Amazon does work backwards from customers, part of them working backwards is how to translate customer requirements into a successful business. Amazon is doing this as a for profit company, not spending money on altruistic initiatives. E.g. purely for the benefit of customers, having AWS services be multi-cloud and open source or reducing egress cost would be best.
- p_l 5y ago
  Because K8s, while commonly deployed on the cloud, is more of a "local cloud operating system" that you use to marshall a bunch of resources into "cloud" (and finalizing TPRs into CRDs really made it shine). To the point that k8s is base operating system for... Chick-Fil-A restaurants, deployed locally, controlling the industrial kitchen hardware.