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I think it was more of this one applicable? https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

They don't give a shit. You can use Argon on Pro but not that pro and no not on that app which we depreciated but on this new app which will be depreciate before you can install it.

It honestly is really hard to figure out what to use and where. It shouldn't be. A pro plan is a pro plan. It doesn't matter if you get it via x,y or z. If there is difference based on where you get it, then call it something else and not a pro plan.

They make something are feel like its the best thing in the world and leave users behind to experience it hiding it behind obscure docs and hiddens T&C with no support. And users have no clue what and how to do it.

Unfortunately, India's focus is on everything but models. Hope I am wrong but the VCs there are now very risk free and are only investing in Snacks, Beauty and similar companies making risk free money due to growing income of population.

All the good talent moved to other countries due to this.

And it is bypassing mandatory GHA Pipeline check and giving green. So be careful when merging/reviewing your PRs cause.

I think GCP has been giving out lucrative contracts with lots of discounts and credits which has led to this growth. I've seen many companies jump the ship cause they got 100/200k 2/3 year credits which is a lot for many of them at that stage. They also have their partners migrate them at their own expense. So it is essentially free money for those companies. I know a prominent entertainment content provider who went from AWS to Azure and then from Azure to GCP just because of this in 6-7 year. Plus the GPU hunt nowadays along with everyone producing code has definetely helped every cloud provider and even dedicated server providers/VPS (most of them dont have cheap options availaible). So how much of the growth has been organic vs TK led, hard to know.

If I think about it you might be right though some of this comes from Google's disdain for its customers be it hardware/software/cloud. So it is kinda inherited. One of the main reasons most good cloud consultants ask their clients to stay away from GCP is because of their depreciation policy. Plus stuff like this has been common in GCP.

So TK brought it to fix it instead of fixing it has brought the toxic OCI culture too which in the end brings them down even more.

TK TK TK TK. Welcome to the jungle.

In May 2024, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) accidentally deleted the private cloud account and all backups belonging to UniSuper, an Australian pension fund managing over $125 billion.

Sure, if this was one off isolated incident people would have agreed with you. But it's not. Even Google personal accounts have been used to ban their other ones including ones spending thousands of dollars on ads or GCP or any other paid google service, which is ridiculous.

Yup, updated with the article I mentioned by Steve Yegge. Still holds true today.

Yeah, sadly know that from being burned from one of their depreciations. In fact, 2-3. But you live and you learn. And it is better to learn from other's mistakes always.

"Railway owns our vendor choices, and we ultimately own this one. Your customers don't care whether the failure was Google or Railway; they see your product. Your uptime is our responsibility, and we'll keep delivering on it."

Kudos to them for acknowledging it and not doing PR speak. It shows it was an architectural failure from their part of trusting GCP, and they are working to fix it. Should they have seen it coming? Yes. But better late than never.

100% agree, I've seen on Twitter and HN small players facing similar issues with no recourse and response from Google. I don't know what kind of place they are trying to build there.

They got TK to woo the enterprise customers who were forced to be hostage to OCI. But it seems they are still doing opposite of hostage here.

That seems to be the case. But as we see it backfires. Railway is very public, but we know at hacker news google has been doing this kind of thing for quite some time now.

Then it's a bad endorsement for Gemini 3.5 pro too. But jokes aside, I think they need a customer centric thinking instead of a self-centred one they seem to harbour even before TK joined (not everything can be blamed on him although it should be his responsibility now).

Haha, no. I know Google bans anyone randomly with usually no recourse in sight. I just wanted to take a dig at how bad their LLM is too while we were at it and thinks like Google themselves which is not surprising.

This should be a warning to anyone running GCP. They suspend accounts left right and centre without even thinking about what they're doing. It seems like they use Gemini 3.1 Pro to run their production decisions.

TK has a history of absolutely destroying the culture of the place like in OCI and has done something similar in GCP from what I've heard. GCP and Google are completely different entities with how they work. Don't expect Google quality from the name. It's just like those old brands which now have cheap licensed products like Nokia (An exaggeration I know but not far from truth).

Not only that they are known to shut off their services randomly giving you like 6 months to migrate. They have lots of engineers not doing anything, so they put them on migrating internal users off those services, most of their clients don't. There was a brilliant article on this by an ex-GCP employee that I can't find right now.

Avoid GCP like plague if you are serious about your business.

Edit: Gemini (unironically) found the article on this, a very good read: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

No one even cares about Azure it seem. We just had an over 5 hour outage due to them.

Unfortunately this is becoming common in countries like India since there is no other option. We are looking for a mid level DevOps and get like 1000s of application. The requirements were clear we need k8s and IaC exp. But when we went to interview, none of them had production level exp. They told the recruiter that they had who didnt have a way to verify it. After 2-3 interviews like that, I had so start giving them Coderbyte assesments like write a k8s manifests, a Dockerfile and logs parsing. Otherwise, you won't be able to hire.

If you are married to Apple Ecosystem then yeah but Samsung Tablets have this feature. Plus better S-OLED screens for content consumption.

Thanks, I was acutally wondering how would someone even manage to make that big a chip.

I guess firing so many in the Github team was not that wise a decision. But immediate share holder value go vrooom.

Long term impact? Leadership aint gonna stay to see that.

Non-American but yup, Americans generally donate to people whose policies you support. For Non Americans it is a bit complicated but very much possible.

I mean if you really wanted to get to that conclusion they do support Israel.