Google Cloud Platform Blog: Using GitHub for Push-to-Deploy

I always have the idea of hoping that Google would look at Google Code project and reactivate its momentum. I say this because GC was my first DVCS store. I used to host my own wordpress and phpBB plugins back when I was a high school kid (that was 6-7 years ago).

Furthermore, Google has everything in pieces. They got AppEngine to deploy service, Compute Engine doing IaaS. They have Google Docs, Gmail and Hangout which allow people to connect with colleagues and friends. Docs can share files and store some level of data revisions. Gmail can do easy attachment and recognize drives' files. They have a search engine which is powerful and Google probably can invest more money to do code search and data search quickly.

What irritates me is that we have a broken system. There are tens of different dashboard, deployment tool and monitoring system to choose. That's great. The way we use them is like getting all the car components and try to build a car from scratch. This is where startup comes in to fix problems, which is great!

I am not saying "Google, please take over the world." But Google has everything but I fail to see why they can't connect their platforms together, as of 2014.

Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616004