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Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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Got it, thanks! What about running a postgres container on GKE?

There's nothing stopping anybody for sure, but it's definitely not going to be as hands-off for getting to high availability, backups, scaling well, etc would be with managed SQL as a service.

Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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One of the reasons I avoid Google is because they have taken lot of pain to make their customer care totally suck. I mean even IRS and Comcast support does better compared to Google. I published a very critical release to my Android app few weeks back and realized that it was not getting published at all. It took me a month to get the problem resolved. I don't want to buy a cloud service where the support might be no…

We offer paid support for Cloud ( http://cloud.google.com/support ) that let you trade off responsive time (e.g., 4 hours vs 1) for price. The support personnel (and engineering!) also do best effort scanning of Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and per-product mailing lists. You can get links to those here: https://cloud.google.com/support/#community . Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, but not in Support (though I d…

What kind of support am I going to get if I'm just tinkering with the platform? Maybe I'm just used to AWS but I always found the GCE interface (at least for launching VMs) a lot more difficult to use.

Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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What Google Cloud needs is a better sales story. AWS consistently beats out Google in this respect. This story is welcomed and there should be more success stories published like this. My business is a heavy GC user (AppEngine, Datastore, CloudStorage, BQ, ComputeEngine, ManagedVM) and I couldn't imagine achieving what we have achieved in such a short amount of time on any other platform. We (myself and another guy)…

You also forgot to include a link to your hiring page in your website, too bad you're not hiring remotely https://angel.co/gearlaunch/jobs

I want to see your lovely face in the office every day. =)

Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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What Google Cloud needs is a better sales story. AWS consistently beats out Google in this respect. This story is welcomed and there should be more success stories published like this. My business is a heavy GC user (AppEngine, Datastore, CloudStorage, BQ, ComputeEngine, ManagedVM) and I couldn't imagine achieving what we have achieved in such a short amount of time on any other platform. We (myself and another guy)…

True, while other providers focus on DevOps, Google Cloud strives for NoOps. They should do more marketing on that.

Our company motto is that we will strive to never hire a devops role and will work to design and engineer our platform in a way that backs up that claim.

Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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I had no clue spotify operated their own data centers. Does anyone have a link to that compares google cloud vs aws on a per price + per service basis ?

Last year, we commissioned an independent 3rd-party vendor to prepare a whitepaper comparing GCP pricing with AWS: https://cloud.google.com/files/esg-whitepaper.pdf

We also have a handy guide for AWS professionals who are looking at Google's cloud: https://cloud.google.com/docs/google-cloud-platform-for-aws-...

[Disclosure, I work for GCP, but I love all TLAs equally]

Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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You also forgot to include a link to your hiring page in your website, too bad you're not hiring remotely https://angel.co/gearlaunch/jobs

I want to see your lovely face in the office every day. =)

Man, you should consider remote options at least for the Customer Success given how low you're paying (is $50K really livable in San Francisco?).

Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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I had no clue spotify operated their own data centers. Does anyone have a link to that compares google cloud vs aws on a per price + per service basis ?

there are a few resources out there, the most recent one: http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-google-says-to-aws-price-c...

But GCP also has a pretty nice pricing calculator: https://cloud.google.com/pricing/tco/

Cheers,

Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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What Google Cloud needs is a better sales story. AWS consistently beats out Google in this respect. This story is welcomed and there should be more success stories published like this. My business is a heavy GC user (AppEngine, Datastore, CloudStorage, BQ, ComputeEngine, ManagedVM) and I couldn't imagine achieving what we have achieved in such a short amount of time on any other platform. We (myself and another guy)…

You seem to have forgotten to plug your product.

It's IBM.

Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

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What Google Cloud needs is a better sales story. AWS consistently beats out Google in this respect. This story is welcomed and there should be more success stories published like this. My business is a heavy GC user (AppEngine, Datastore, CloudStorage, BQ, ComputeEngine, ManagedVM) and I couldn't imagine achieving what we have achieved in such a short amount of time on any other platform. We (myself and another guy)…

I've been relying on multiple Cloud offerings (including PaaS, IaaS etc) outside Google for many years, but for some unclear reason, I cannot manage to consider Google a reliable partner for a type of hosting or another, at this point.

I would love to be proven wrong really, because I often look at their GC offering, and I /really/ want to dive in, yet I feel that I would risk having to migrate quickly in 2 weeks at some point because they are changing things significantly (either shutting down or other major change).

So to my question: for how long have these services been around in a fashion that is stable (feature-wise, quality-wise etc)? Is there anyone here with a longer history of using Google Cloud offering, able to comment on this?

EDIT: thanks to everyone who replied below. I think I'll give it a try :-)

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