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There is no way to disentangle TI from gcp

• andybak 3y ago
  TI?
  • dekhn 3y ago
    Technical Infrastructure- historically, a division inside google which was responsible for the software and hardware infrastructure that runs google. Search, ads, cloud, youtube, etc all ran (run?) on top of TI software and hardware. TI existed before google cloud did and was (is) basically its own cloud with a service API, with borg, google clusters, networking, storage, databases, etc. Historically it was run by Urs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle). At some point, TI and cloud got mixed up together to get more TI people to work on Cloud products. Many cloud products represent either TI services or variations/ports/reimplementations of TI services. TI was absolutely enormous and it was key to google's early and continued scaling of compute and storage. I don't know if it still exists within Google or got renamed, or what.
• ra7 3y ago
  Is that because GCP runs on Google infra and (most?) GCP services are rebranded versions of internal Google services?
  • bluedevilzn 3y ago
    lol only if Google would do things that made sense in anyway.
• dekhn 3y ago
  Honestly, they should have spun off TI into its own company even before cloud! you could call it "ursco"