rugmug5

Or you could leave it in the cloud where it already is and not transfer it to Google's cloud. I wasn't suggesting building your own...

Once the free period is over the 100PB will cost $1 million per month in storage fees alone. Will the free month(s) even cover the retrieval and transfer fees to take 100PB out of another cloud?

Its a different use case, cold storage vs content delivery...

Hence Scala...

You're using the standard jvm, why would they care?

You really shouldn't be relying on globals anyway. Using $1 etc. is a serious code smell. It shouldn't by definition be threadsafe in any event. The only way that would work would be if you rely on the threads not actually running at the same time as an implementation detail of the MRI.