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Things You Need to Know About Where Google Is Going Next
- jonmwords 14y agoKey points from interview with Google engineering director Peter Magnusson during Google I/O. He explained their cloud direction. He insists that the future is toward completely managed services. Do you think so?
- mark_l_watson 14y agoI also just submitted this article, nice that HN coalesces submissions. I prefer using PaaS myself with Heroku and AppEngine being my favorites but I also enjoyed kicking the tires on dotCloud, OpenShift, and others. That said I just rented a high capacity Hetzner.de server a few weeks ago because a lot of what I do, besides customer projects where they pay the bills for infrastructure, is learning side projects and some of my experiments take a lot of resources. I can't comfortably afford to do some of my side projects on PaaS because I don't directly make money from them.