Google cache had what, 15 years of support, with no promises ever?
I think of all the google.products, that's pretty good.
Inbox still hurts though, but not as much as google music
It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614795
Re:Google Cache Is Fully Dead
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:44AM
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The problem is that the average number of years does not inspire confidence, and they make almost no promises anywhere.
Having been burnt too many times with Google products[1] I try not use their offerings on the cloud many decision makers are here who will worry about similar issues.
If Google wants to be serious about Cloud then they need to be serious about long term support.
Microsoft in the win 3 /9x days till even win 7 was exceptionally consistent about ABI support even adding specific behaviors to support a single binary to make sure upgrades just worked. That kind of culture was a key factor that made developers want to develop on their platforms
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[1] just this week having to start work on upcoming firebase dynamic link deprecation.
While google had given a long lead time and announced the sunsetting years ahead , I still don’t have to worry about similar issues on AWS nearly as often.