The blog of Panoply, a cloud data warehouse company, comparing databases like Redshift, BigQuery, MongoDB, and Redis.
Commenters are mixed: one links the founder's account of why Panoply was built, while another doubts a product that tries to take on AWS.
Your response is from a geek’s viewpoint. No insult, intended, I’m first and foremost a 30 year computer geek myself - started programming in 65C02 assembly in 6th grade and still mostly hands on.
But, whether it is right or not, as an architect/manager, etc, you have to think about what’s not just best technically. You also have to manage your reputational risks if things go south and less selfishly, how quickly can you find someone with the relevant experience.
From a reputation standpoint, even if AWS and GCP have the same reliability, no one will blame you if AWS goes down if you followed best practices. If a global outage of an AWS resource went down, you’re in the same boat as a ton of other people. If everyone else was up and running fine but you weren’t because you were on the distant third cloud provider, you don’t have as much coverage.
I went out on a limb and chose Hashicorp’s Nomad as the basis of a make or break my job project I was the Dev lead/architect for hoping like hell things didn’t go south and the first thing people were going to ask me is why I chose it. No one had heard of Nomad but I needed a “distributed cron” type system that could run anything and it was on prem. It was the right decision but I took a chance.
From a staffing standpoint, you can throw a brick and hit someone who at least thinks they know something about AWS or Azure GCP, not so much.
It’s not about which company is technically better, but I didn’t want to ignore your…
So let the one who thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall. This is a biblical reference, but in this case, it applies. He has built up this product to do a lot by attempting to step on the neck of AWS. He's barely reached an elbow. What he is attempting to start is already being done. http://blog.panoply.io/the-power-struggle-in-the-cloud-db-war-just-shifted-paradigm
Very interesting read. Im a big fan of his work even though some of it might be a bit off. It was part of the inspiration to building my company. This is the first blog I ever wrote about the company:
http://blog.panoply.io/why-we-built-panoply.io-and-what-ray-kurzweils-law-of-accelerated-returns-has-to-do-with-it