Google launches Public Datasets program

Re:Google launches Public Datasets program by vgt on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @09:26PM (#11386336)

BigQuery is a truly fully-managed service. This means that SREs are on call 24/7. It's not software that one downloads. Hence it really doesn't make a lot of sense to have it available to just a few folks, incremental overhead is low.

I'd love to hear industry standards around deprecation of paid services. This is really a way of doing business in the entire world, and I'm not sure why Google is being held to an unreasonable and impossible standard of "never deprecate anything ever!". For example, here is Microsoft's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Microsof...

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Re:Google launches Public Datasets program by awqrre on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @09:43PM (#11386391)

I was not blaming anybody, it's possible that a service would be more valuable to a company if it's kept internally.

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Re:Google launches Public Datasets program by vgt on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @12:25AM (#11386959)

Ah yes, point well taken. I think we've seen this historically at Google, but things have changed in the past few years.

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Re:Google launches Public Datasets program by ignoramous on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:38AM (#11387552)

Primarily as a reaction to AWS and Azure?

Google announced Colossus in 2011, is that going to make it to GCP?

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Re:Google launches Public Datasets program by vgt on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:10AM (#11389826)

You can use Colossus today! It's a very low level service, leveraged by other GCP services.

For example, Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery Storage both sit on Colossus. Read more on BQ here:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/bigquery-unde...

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