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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by calcifer on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:53PM (#24170275)
> Having a 'support everything forever' approach is obviously going to impose a huge burden on the teams who maintain this stuff which is then going to limit the ability to make anything better

And yet AWS is doing just that while innovating at the same time.

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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by remus on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:29PM (#24172112)
AWS depreciate things too, though. For example https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-...
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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by calcifer on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:51PM (#24172288)
Deprecate [1] doesn't mean remove though. While the old style paths are officially deprecated, they will be supported indefinitely. GCP's problem is that they deprecate and remove features.

[1] "Depreciate" is something else.

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