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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by anytime5704 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:42AM (#38026236)
It’s disheartening to read all the comments agreeing with this post.

I actually worked on GCP for several years and we always made sure our customer facing API changes were backwards compatible.

The decision to deprecate or “sunset” a feature was not taken lightly and needed to be announced O(years) ahead of time.

Apparently, my team was an exception rather than the norm.

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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by VladTheImpalor on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:12AM (#38026648)
It's concerning to read your comment on this post, since it suggests you were unaware of all these issues people were facing with Google cloud. Was there not much cross talk or discussion of what issues the customers were experiencing with the platform as a whole?
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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by anytime5704 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:46AM (#38027186)
GCP is a gigantic organization and I was a cog in a machine.

I was aware that people criticized GCP for various reasons, but there wasn’t much I could do beyond my team/product area.

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