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Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by grepLeigh on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:18PM (#33660508)
My most basic definition of a product is:

Something I can insert money into, which solves a more expensive problem.

Kubernetes and TensorFlow are extraordinary technologies - and very important to the work I do daily. I don't think they're products though, certainly not successful products.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by rrdharan on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:22PM (#33660581)
> Something I can insert money into, which solves a more expensive problem.

Right. I would argue that "public cloud infrastructure" is such a product; GCP/AWS/Azure specifically. (See below also) Kubernetes enabled the existence of EKS/AKS/GKE all of which I believe are considered successful.

Separately, TensorFlow enabled Azure Machine Learning, TensorFlow on AWS and Google Cloud TensorFlow Enterprise, and generally expanded (IMO) the market for IaaS.

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