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Re:The Big DevOps Misunderstanding by amzn-throw on Monday December 20, 2021 @04:14PM (#29630365)
AWS's mindset is software is useless without customers. Google doesn't seem to have the same care - it's a charity for academic software engineers to spend AdSense revenue on abstract high level computer science problems not caring about practical applications.

It's why most Google X ideas flame out. It's why there's a new chat app every year.

But - it's a net positive for humanity. Google publishes a lot of papers, and I think genuinely has moved humanity forward in the last few decades.

I don't have a PhD and I don't do L33tcode, so I don't think I'm smart enough to be at Google, but honestly I don't know if I would want to be.

I prefer shipping.

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Re:The Big DevOps Misunderstanding by ayberk on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:07PM (#29640204)
I'm sure you're more than enough smart to be at Google :) It's just practice and luck.

I completely agree that people who prefer to ship fast would be happier at AWS. I've heard all the horror stories about how slow Google is, but I think GCP has a great balance between speed and quality. I'm definitely happier here, but I understand why some people would be happier at AWS.

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