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That's because Google doesn't use workers efficiently. They hire very smart people and then make them use things like Google Cloud and K8S and OKRs and no matter how many people they throw at the problem... progress... is.. slow...

Google was a center of technical excellence up until some time around 2005-2010 or so but their real exceptionalism is having the highly profitable near-monopoly advertising business which lets them sustain technological and management systems which wouldn't be sustainable anywhere else.

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They hire very smart people and then make them use things like Google Cloud

Use google cloud? as opposed to what exactly?

Other cloud providers.

I did a shootout of 10 vision recognition APIs including AWS and Azure. I had all the other APIs working in under 20 minutes, but Google Cloud took 2 hours just to get authentication working and wound up trashing the Python installation on my machine and forced me to reinstall it.

It’s just not a member of the same probability distribution.

And it is all like that, what is dead easy with competitors is a struggle with Google Cloud because the maze is truly in the mouse.

I did a shootout of 10 vision recognition APIs including AWS and Azure.

You did this while you worked for google?!

No. When I was consulting for a company that ran a marketplace for brands to get videos made.

something with more than the 3 colors.

AFAIK most of Google Internal still doesn't run on actual Google Cloud but an internal version that was forked separately.

which is probably even harder to use.

Hell no. Borg is way better than GCP.

Internal overhead at Google, in my experience, is almost entirely constrained to stuff that relates to regulatory pressure that other companies simply skip.

I believe the comment was talking about the internal Google Cloud frontend, the one that's named after a temple, not Borg.

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