Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
by CaptSpify on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:09PM
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> it's that it's more efficient to have centralized chicken coops instead of every family in the world owning their own chickens.
Only if the owner of the chicken-coop has everyone else's best interests in mind. Protip: They don't.
The Cloud isn't about efficiency, it's about data control. Getting people's systems and data into Google/AWS/etc helps with data mining, vendor lock-in, etc. Often times that can be efficient, but also it often isn't.
Only if the owner of the chicken-coop has everyone else's best interests in mind. Protip: They don't.
The Cloud isn't about efficiency, it's about data control. Getting people's systems and data into Google/AWS/etc helps with data mining, vendor lock-in, etc. Often times that can be efficient, but also it often isn't.