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Google Poly is shutting down

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Re: Google Poly is shutting down

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Post by ygjb »

tomcam wrote: post #6
mrcarruthers wrote: post #3

colour me surprised google is shutting down another product /s

Do you consider it bad that they experiment with new products?

Honestly, at this point Google products should come with some kind of versioning and labelling for commitments.

It would be far easier to choose Google services (and less irritating as a consumer) if services were labelled alpha, beta, production, and LTS, and if each of those labels had a specific duration (e.g. alpha services can vanish immediately without warning; beta have a limited lifecycle where they need to become profitable or at least self-sustaining, production are generally stable and can be relied on for a year, and LTS will be supported for a specific period of time, backed by enterprise support agreements).

But that's just crazy talk!

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Post by Axsuul »

bnt wrote: post #19

At this point, why is anyone relying on Google APIs (or even GCP!) for serious work? It feels like Google is contempt with Search, Ads and Android.

Google Poly looks like a fun experiment that unfortunately didn't pan out to their expectations. Google APIs/GCP have paying users that businesses depend on. It wouldn't be fair to have them in the same room.

Re: Google Poly is shutting down

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Post by lima »

janlaureys wrote: post #18

Didn't really know about this platform, but to me it looks like it could perfectly be kept in some kind of read-only mode without costing all that much for Google.

The cost is ongoing maintenance of the code base, reponding to security issues and such, not the server hosting.

Re: Google Poly is shutting down

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Post by plumsempy »

tomcam wrote: post #6
mrcarruthers wrote: post #3

colour me surprised google is shutting down another product /s

Do you consider it bad that they experiment with new products?

Depends what you mean by bad; it hurts trust. For instance the Appengine to Appengine 2 transition is a particularly painful one for a consumer who built an entire business on it and I was part of a migration to address this.

I had heard Google is unreliable in this aspect before but after this particular experience I will unlikely use or suggest Google for anything serious.

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