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Re:Kubernetes Documentary: A Critical Review by mohanmcgeek on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:47AM (#30416426)
A bulk of this criticism seems to rely on the author's understanding that somehow Google app engine and AWS were competitors before Google seriously realised that AWS was a high margin business that was bankrolling all of Amazon.

I remember those days and Google app engine was trying to compete with Heroku.

Google is also known to exist in markets in the form of 20% projects and not take put serious muscle behind those efforts: Take Orkut vs Facebook as an example vs the Google+ effort in 2010-11 when Facebook seemed like it was going to eat the world.

The documentary's narrative seems more accurate.

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Re:Kubernetes Documentary: A Critical Review by jasonrichardsmi on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:20AM (#30416796)
Google released VMs in 2013, the year of this documentary, which means they were working on it for some time prior to this discussion.
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Re:Kubernetes Documentary: A Critical Review by mohanmcgeek on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:19PM (#30418905)
The tipping point was NASA dropping out of openstack to sign a contract with AWS.

You should checkout Azure presentations from 2012 to find out how nobody saw the "cloud" coming.

Kubernetes was a very effective strategy to make AWS knowledge irrelevant by providing a layer on top/alternative interface and it succeeded. Obviously AWS consultants would hate it for it.

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