[LamaOfRuin]

> Thus, optimizing utilization through improved container scheduling is something that the core site reliability engineering team could do independently of individual services.

But is that something it is known they prioritized, or was there perhaps more interest in optimizing the efficiency of deploying thousands of containers on every deploy, across data centers, with reliable testing, without killing in flight processing, and scaling for subsecond response to bursty demand? Who sets the priorities for what is most important, and how much of one they're willing to sacrifice to improve physical utilization?

I have absolutely no doubt they had as many resources as any other company dedicated to finely tuning their data centers and related infrastructure. I question whether they had the same motivation as a company like Amazon (who was deriving direct profit from selling this resource) to prioritize the optimization of utilization.