You can listen and read Spotify engineers talking about their experiences with Google, including running 2,000,000 qps load tests without ever telling anyone at Google.

If you read some of their blogs, you can see how brutally honest they are about the pros and cons of our services:

https://labs.spotify.com/2016/03/10/spotifys-event-delivery-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTVFg6YOjWo&index=7&list=PLI...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6tQAIywFQ&index=1&list=PLI...

Finally, does this sound like an engineer who got paid to speak? https://twitter.com/mpjme/status/702167231623516160