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Historically their (internal) culture was a monorepo, keep things clean, refactor, OK to break things because you could also refactor the entire code / API.

Sounds kind of awesome!

The problem is externally this is total madness. You CANNOT just keep on breaking everything on your customers.

I was very early on both AWS and GCP. There is literally no comparison between these companies in terms of cloud offerings and how much has been blown up, neglected etc on the GCP side vs AWS.

This cloud stuff is going to be less "cool" than google is used to - it's going to need them to carry around some older API's (ie, technical debt) etc etc so they don't constantly screw their customers. So it just doesn't feel like its in their DNA.

AWS is all about making customer happy -> that work well.

Google is about cool tech and doing the new things -> that doesn't work well.

Maybe spin GCP off with some old industry folks mixed into the new hotness?