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Re: Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Who’s surprised? They can’t afford to run on their biggest competitor’s platform.

Netflix does, at least ec2.

Is amazon video their biggest competitor? I’d have thought that Hulu, HBO Go, iTunes and other streaming services might be more popular than Amazon Video. I have no data to back that up though.

ps: given that Amazon Video is available for all prime members, we can’t compare total number of subscribers. Hours of videos watched per day might be a better number to look at.

Re: Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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The irony of GitLab running on Microsoft and GitHub not.

Indeed. This moves them closer to reversing that. Now to complete that, all that has to happen is for GitHub to move to Azure. They probably wouldn't want to do that now because it would look like they were implementing the merger before regulatory approval.

Re: Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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They claim this is because of their focus on Kubernetes, but I have to wonder how much of this has to do with Microsoft acquiring Github. That aside, that's a tough slight for AKS.

Agree, this is the first thing i thought when i read that. Reaction to all troll on the fact that gitlab was hosted on Azure

Except they announced this before it was known that Microsoft buys Github...

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/

Re: Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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I understand that Gitlab helm charts are now beta in 11.0, does it also mean Gitlab is fully running on Kubernetes on Azure (there's no mention of AKS)?

I wonder if they'll also publish the difference in cost between the two platforms.

Re: Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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They claim this is because of their focus on Kubernetes, but I have to wonder how much of this has to do with Microsoft acquiring Github. That aside, that's a tough slight for AKS.

I don't think moving to GKE implies that AKS is inadequate. They could just be choosing the best of two excellent options.

Re: Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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It would be interesting to see details of the performance issues motivating this.

It's probably more of a branding and PR strategy than a technical decision.

It was a technical decision. They announced it before the GitHub acquisition.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abando... https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/

Re: Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, this is the first thing i thought when i read that. Reaction to all troll on the fact that gitlab was hosted on Azure

Except they announced this before it was known that Microsoft buys Github... https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/

They might have put these two things together: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/430871267881672704?lan... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/21/github_ceo_chris_wa...

Re: Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Who’s surprised? They can’t afford to run on their biggest competitor’s platform.

Netflix does, at least ec2.

Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't Netflix run their billing / search / recommendation /... systems on AWS and their whole video content streaming are engineered / hosted internally in collaboration with ISPs?
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