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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by jeffbee on Saturday January 28, 2023 @02:16PM (#34560578)
That doesn’t make sense in the context of google. Their own workloads are still way larger than their public cloud. Arguably their first offering, app engine, was the perfect fit because they shoved it into the cracks in between their other borg jobs. The fit of GCE in their overall platform is much worse.
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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by vineyardmike on Saturday January 28, 2023 @02:44PM (#34560939)
It does if Google can double their footprint. They announced reduced profitability recently in part due to capex for data centers.

Last year google started warning some internal teams that they had to limit usage. It’s possible they’re running out of compute.

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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by jeffbee on Saturday January 28, 2023 @03:43PM (#34561629)
Google has been internally chopping budgets since decades. Is how they keep utilization up. Look up “steamroller” or “ucp” if you don’t know those.
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