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by vgt 9y ago
Let me respectfully rephrase your argument. Despite parent's logical argument and evidence, and despite further evidence that Google doesn't really shut down Enterprise services at industry-irregular rates, market narrative has be
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by vgt 9y ago
Before folks start comparing this to Reader or point to the general "Google shuts things down" narrative, Prediction API has been superset by the array of ML APIs and Google Cloud ML, found at [0]. [0] https://cloud.goo
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General Availability of GPUs for Cloud Machine Learning Engine(cloud.google.com)
2 points by vgt 9y ago|0 comments
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That giant sucking sound? Hadoop moving into the cloud(redmonk.com)
1 points by vgt 9y ago|0 comments
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Spydra – Ephemeral Hadoop Clusters Using Google Compute(labs.spotify.com)
2 points by vgt 9y ago|0 comments
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Caching Out of Hadoop: How New York Times Embraces New Technology(thenewstack.io)
2 points by vgt 9y ago|0 comments
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Reliable export of PubSub streams to storage at Spotify(labs.spotify.com)
6 points by vgt 9y ago|0 comments
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by vgt 9y ago
I am not in compliance, but absence of evidence doesn't imply evidence of absence. Google Cloud has probably industry's highest security standards in place [0] . Getting governing bodies to sign off on their accreditations is a ve
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by vgt 10y ago
BigQuery is ALWAYS the right choice :) (a very biased Googler perspective) In all seriousness, BigQuery is amazing - hit me up if you have any questions!
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by vgt 10y ago
A critical design feature of Spanner is owning the packets end-to-end (as in, between data centers and across oceans). This lets Google minimize the "A" in "CAP", and would be quite difficult to replicate outside of a ne
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Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture(blog.google)
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by vgt 10y ago
And BigQuery!
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by vgt 10y ago
Minor correction - unless you consider Paraccel a part of Redshift (you probably should), BigQuery GA precedes Redshift release by around a year, and Dremel at least 6.
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by vgt 10y ago
Happy to help! On partitioning - sounds like a great candidate for sharding. BigQuery standard SQL makes it very easy to run unions on shards (ex. Select * from tables_*) On pricing - BigQuery is a very different product functionally, and I
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by vgt 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification! BigQuery's on-demand model charges just for the resources consumed during the job execution (via a per-TB proxy), rather than resources provisioned. This is the highest order of cloud-native pricing models
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by vgt 10y ago
> On the pay-per-TB pricing for BigQuery and Snowflake. I think that's more of a marketing spin. Most companies we work with are compute-bound. So per-TB pricing helps them very little. They want to crunch their data as fast as poss
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by vgt 10y ago
I worked on the BigQuery team and happy to answer any questions you may have. There are quite a few AWS customers running on BigQuery. (See [0], [1] [7], [8] ) I'll offer some resources: - A session from last Google NEXT, where Yahoo,
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Show HN: Discover and Redact Sensitive Data with the Data Loss Prevention API(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
2 points by vgt 10y ago|0 comments
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by vgt 10y ago
If we're on the topic comparing Spanner, here's the 15-second live demo of resizing Spanner from 70 to 99 nodes at [0]. The act itself is quite unremarkable, but the complexity abstracted away is awesome. Both Spanner and Datastor
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by vgt 10y ago
Google has released "Committed Use Discounts", an RI competitor, which appears to be ~35% cheaper than RIs on average, according to Rightscale [0]. I also wrote an article discussing why "Committed Use Discounts" is a mu
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Google Cloud services described in 4 words or less(docs.google.com)
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Why Google’s Answer to AWS Reserved Instances Is a Big Deal(hackernoon.com)
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100 Announcements from Google Cloud NEXT(blog.google)
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Why Google's Answer to Amazon's Reserved Instances Is a Big Deal(medium.com)
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Google Cloud – Price Cuts, Reserved Instances, Dataprep, Cloud Functions, More(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
66 points by vgt 10y ago|11 comments
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Introducing Google Cloud Community(cloud.google.com)
3 points by vgt 10y ago|0 comments
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by vgt 10y ago
We happen to have our major annual conference, Google Next, this week. Tune in at [0] Wednesday-Friday :) (Work at Google Cloud) [0] https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/
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Introducing Google Cloud Container Builder(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
310 points by vgt 10y ago|110 comments
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Introducing 64-core, 416GB instances with up to 128 [!!!] disks attached(cloud.google.com)
6 points by vgt 10y ago|0 comments
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How and Why Yik-Yak Migrated from AWS to Google Cloud(medium.com)
1 points by vgt 10y ago|0 comments

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