it's kind of nuts how they let Amazon eat their lunch in this area. It's GOOGLE: these guys invent filesystems (GFS/CFS), create their own Javascript compiler (

it's kind of nuts how they let Amazon eat their lunch in this area. It's GOOGLE: these guys invent filesystems (GFS/CFS), create their own Javascript compiler (V8), hell they've even created two programming languages (Dart, golang) and a database (spanner) -- how Amazon got ahead in cloud hosting really gives me pause. Totally opposed to Amazon's, GOOG's DNA has never been about serving customers directly. I foresee their cloud offerings, including Firebase -- to the extent they'll let it run, to continue being tolerated stepchildren.