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A bulk of this criticism seems to rely on the author's understanding that somehow Google app engine and AWS were competitors before Google seriously realised th
by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
A bulk of this criticism seems to rely on the author's understanding that somehow Google app engine and AWS were competitors before Google seriously realised that AWS was a high margin business that was bankrolling all of Amazon.
I remember those days and Google app engine was trying to compete with Heroku.
Google is also known to exist in markets in the form of 20% projects and not take put serious muscle behind those efforts: Take Orkut vs Facebook as an example vs the Google+ effort in 2010-11 when Facebook seemed like it was going to eat the world.
The documentary's narrative seems more accurate.
- jasonrichardsmi 5y agoGoogle released VMs in 2013, the year of this documentary, which means they were working on it for some time prior to this discussion.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoThe tipping point was NASA dropping out of openstack to sign a contract with AWS. You should checkout Azure presentations from 2012 to find out how nobody saw the "cloud" coming. Kubernetes was a very effective strategy to make AWS knowledge irrelevant by providing a layer on top/alternative interface and it succeeded. Obviously AWS consultants would hate it for it.