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by pinkgodzilla 2890 days ago
I wonder what kind of monitoring and alert system must exist if any cloud provider changes their SDK or APIs (signature, logic, capability etc.) upstream while your go binaries are in production. Did Google manage to get cloud providers on board to register and update a 1 to 1 match between the upstream api and the go cloud api?

Secondly on the article's mention on multi cloud usage, you would need to be a pretty large place to need (or even bothering to assess and convince yourself that you need) to use multiple cloud providers at once. Just learning and tweaking settings in the cloud providers GUI console is half the battle won sometimes.

Saying all this, this, together with the data portability announcement, it is definitely great for competition and going to bring great resilience in your code base to be SDK agnostic.
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fishywang 2890 days ago
I don't think cloud providers would just change their SDK or APIs without notice. It will break anyone using their SDK, not only go-cloud.

For your second point, it's normal for small startups to shop around and pick the cloud provider that's more suitable for their needs. For example on my last job at a small startup, we switched from AWS to GCP for cost reasons, and I implemented an abstraction (similar to go-cloud's) between S3 and GCS because of that.

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pinkgodzilla 2889 days ago
They never change over the course of say 3 years? 5 years? If it changes frequently that's great - someone could be put to task to monitor. If it changes very rarely, you will have a surprise outage although I am guessing debugging and fixing it would not be an issue unless you have SLAs you need to keep up with.
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fishywang 2889 days ago
By "change" I mean "breaking change". Backward compatible changes doesn't matter in the original question.
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outworlder 2890 days ago
> Secondly on the article's mention on multi cloud usage, you would need to be a pretty large place to need (or even bothering to assess and convince yourself that you need) to use multiple cloud providers at once.

Oh, this is not the case at all. Do business with any retailer? Try telling them your stuff is hosted on AWS and see how that works for you.

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pinkgodzilla 2889 days ago
If this occurred frequently for my business, you would architect your system for on-prem flexibility and capabilities. However, I think for just "data" like S3 blob storage, this is definitely a no brainer. I would imagine for VMs its going to be a lot more difficult with load balancing, permissions and what not.
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