jcoene

Very heavy Google Cloud Storage user here.

According to Google's own calculations (in the email they sent about the price changes), this will increase our GCS bill by about 400% (and our entire Google Cloud bill by about 60%).

It would seem that we have until October to move elsewhere... :(

You're expressing a preference for convenience over security. The truth is that most people pick bad passwords, and even good passwords can be cracked.

2FA with a physical component is generally the best way to achieve the goal of "information flows with me". With a password only, you can more aptly describe the situation as "information flows with anyone who knows my password".

When a network partition occurs it's possible that transactions be committed but not acknowledged due to the inability to receive the ack.

We measure web traffic with Google Analytics. Free, industry standard, works.

We measure app metrics and server/service health with Librato Metrics. A local statsd instance collects UDP packets from all over our infrastructure then consolidates and dumps them out to Librato every 60 seconds. We track thousands of data points every minute and it keeps up without issue. Librato offers great and flexible visualization of your data without breaking the bank - highly recommended.

Of course you can make something similar if you're a) willing to build it and 2) don't care about the tremendous amount of complexity you're adding to your application in order to do so.

Both of those sound like bad deals if there's a packaged solution like Datomic that's built specifically for the use case.