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by blickentwapft 2127 days ago
A perfect, spot on analysis.

The only thing that’s weird about this is that it’s about 3 years late.

If this had been written 3 years ago it would have been topical.

But really it’s old news that google deprecates everything and leaves it’s developers in the lurch and that as a result no one wants to use their stuff.

It’s not surprising to hear this from Steve Yegge cause he’s a super switched on guy, but it’s surprising to hear this from him NOW.

Google’s cloud ship sailed years ago, they just haven’t yet got to shutting the whole thing down, but the writing is on the wall.

Google seems totally oblivious to how much developers distrust them, which is probably because dump trucks turn up every hour or so and dump cash onto everything which probably makes everyone feel that everything they do is awesome, even if it isn’t.
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te_chris 2127 days ago
I mean maybe I’m not their dream customer or whatever, but we’re happy with google cloud for our purposes - GKE, CloudSQL, Redis.

I really enjoyed the essay and surely is some truth, but these products have all been pretty good for us.

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blickentwapft 2127 days ago
No doubt what is there works and works well.

The issue is that developer confidence is very low due to google being in a never ending relentless drive to cancel stuff.

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murgindrag 2127 days ago
With 3 services, and Google randomly disabling accounts perhaps 5% of the time for running customers, you have a 15% chance of having your business taken out by a buggy Google algorithm each year. That gives your business a half-life of 4.25 years, approximately, before you get the Google hammer-of-death.

Of course, those might count as one product, in which case, it's 13 years. I'm not sure how Google's algorithms work. Does it detect suspicious behavior per-service or per-cloud-account?

Ironically, so few people use Google in production that successful production use IS anomalous behavior.

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thereare5lights 2127 days ago
You think Google Cloud is gonna shut down?
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blickentwapft 2127 days ago
Well that’s what they said if they don’t get to #2

Just search google for the topic of google cloud shutdown, many speculate it.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

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