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Aweosme, I can't wait till they pull the plug out from under me.

derefr 12y ago
I imagine that wouldn't be very likely in this case—this is much less like Google's usual "let's build some random thing and see if customers like it", and instead very much in the vein of the way Amazon treats AWS: as a set of infrastructure services they themselves consume, but also happen to expose to the public. Now, they might make it private in the future, but as long as Google are using containers for everything, I don't think the service is likely to just go unmaintained and fade away.
- lsc 12y ago
  > very much in the vein of the way Amazon treats AWS: as a set of infrastructure services they themselves consume, but also happen to expose to the public. Reference? I've heard (unsubstantiated but believable) rumors that the servers and system that run the amazon website are rather different from the servers and system they sell the rest of us.
  - derefr 12y ago
    Started that way; now increasingly unified.
- lern_too_spel 12y ago
  From what I know of Google's infrastructure, they are very unlikely to be consuming this internally, just like the rest of GCP. Just because they use containers doesn't mean they use this container repository. Just because they use Java web servers doesn't mean they use AppEngine.
  - cmelbye 12y ago
    Google absolutely uses App Engine internally, and many other GCP offerings as well. This is simply inaccurate.
    - lern_too_spel 12y ago
      They use the external version of App Engine to run any of their customer-facing products? Which ones? Products -- I'm not talking about marketing micro-sites.
      - yid 12y ago
        Not Google, but Snapchat runs on AppEngine.
      - sangnoir 12y ago
        Ingress
- imron 12y ago
  > a set of infrastructure services they themselves consume, but also happen to expose to the public So like google code then. I mean they need all that source control infrastructure anyway, so they'd never shut something like that down. Oh wait....
jahewson 12y ago
Pull the plug out from under you? Or the rug...
- tdurden 12y ago
  Given the context, I am pretty sure that was intentional.

I imagine that wouldn't be very likely in this case—this is much less like Google's usual "let's build some random thing and see if customers like it", and instead very much in the vein of the way Amazon treats AWS: as a set of infrastructure services they themselves consume, but also happen to expose to the public. Now, they might make it private in the future, but as long as Google are using containers for everything, I don't think the service is likely to just go unmaintained and fade away.

lsc 12y ago
> very much in the vein of the way Amazon treats AWS: as a set of infrastructure services they themselves consume, but also happen to expose to the public. Reference? I've heard (unsubstantiated but believable) rumors that the servers and system that run the amazon website are rather different from the servers and system they sell the rest of us.
- derefr 12y ago
  Started that way; now increasingly unified.
lern_too_spel 12y ago
From what I know of Google's infrastructure, they are very unlikely to be consuming this internally, just like the rest of GCP. Just because they use containers doesn't mean they use this container repository. Just because they use Java web servers doesn't mean they use AppEngine.
- cmelbye 12y ago
  Google absolutely uses App Engine internally, and many other GCP offerings as well. This is simply inaccurate.
  - lern_too_spel 12y ago
    They use the external version of App Engine to run any of their customer-facing products? Which ones? Products -- I'm not talking about marketing micro-sites.
    - yid 12y ago
      Not Google, but Snapchat runs on AppEngine.
    - sangnoir 12y ago
      Ingress
imron 12y ago
> a set of infrastructure services they themselves consume, but also happen to expose to the public So like google code then. I mean they need all that source control infrastructure anyway, so they'd never shut something like that down. Oh wait....

jahewson 12y ago

Pull the plug out from under you? Or the rug...

tdurden 12y ago
Given the context, I am pretty sure that was intentional.