GCP

Apr 23, 2020 14 Comments

How is GCP different from the rest of Google? I hear GCP engineers hate it there and thats it’s tough to switch to the rest of google. Is that true?

also, is the rest of google built on-top of GCP? Is YouTube running GCP?

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  • Google
    Cl☁️ud

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    Cl☁️ud
    Google runs on TI (Tech infra) stack.
    Most of GCP is also built atop TI
    Apr 23, 2020 3
    • Google
      Cl☁️ud

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      Cl☁️ud
      TI is now part of cloud. For example TI Spanner is part of GCP org. Cloud spanner, which is built on top of TI Spanner is also part of GCP.

      If this was not complicated enough, a lot of search and ads infra teams are also part of cloud. But YouTube and Maps infra is not part of cloud.

      To make it EVEN more complex, Gmail, Drive and gSuite are all part of cloud too.

      We love to make our org structure impossible to understand. Some day Google AI will get smart enough to parse it 🤪
      Apr 23, 2020
    • Oracle / Eng
      noogler169

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      noogler169
      ^Continuing on this, gcp infra is basically porting existing TI infra for commercial use cases. Unlike say Amazon we didnt have to build Aurora as there were multiple such db in various orgs so these were just transferred to Cloud org so they can build a few wrappers and of course some new tech for gcp.
      Apr 24, 2020
  • Oracle / Eng
    noogler169

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    Its actually the other way around. Google built so much high quality infra for search/gmail and others so they transferred that org into gcp. I am talking about the TI org.
    Switching at google is same across orgs and you wont be held back becayde you worked in GCP, but of course hm look for relevant skills leanred.
    Apr 23, 2020 2
  • Google
    titsandass

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    titsandass
    In what sense? Comp is fairly good. Wlb is terrible
    Apr 23, 2020 0
  • GCP has Spanner!
    Apr 24, 2020 5