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The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

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Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

#21

What's "GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite.)" mean for those of us that don't speak google?

I guess "Annual Recurring Revenue". And for me it's a sign that the article is purely from a business person - which likely has a very different view on the state of things than engineers working on the projects.

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

#23

The way the article was written fits the common perception of Google. It was written for insiders who understood Google’s lingua franca. It didn’t offer any insight to the outsider other than to make them feel small for not being one of the cool kids.

Yes, it is an awful style of writing!

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

#27
IIRC, AWS had the free tier first. Which is what brought me in. I wasn’t trying to change the world, but I’ll take free server space if they’re giving it away.

Then they sealed the deal when a little Echo skill I wrote for myself gave me (and continues to give me) got me $100/month in AWS credits.

Combine that with every place of work using AWS, and I’m pretty much married to it. I at least know the UI, and for a programming who hates configuration, that means a lot (as far as getting in and getting out quickly).

Re: The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

#28

What's "GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite.)" mean for those of us that don't speak google?

"Google Cloud Platform at less than $150 million Annual Recurring Revenue & left at around $4 billion (excluding Google Suite.)"

I suspect he used abbreviations generously since he actually posted this on Twitter and ThreadApp is just merging multiple tweets in an article format to make it easier to read.

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