Screaming In The Cloud

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) turned off a customer that it thought was doing something out of bounds. This led to an Internet outrage, and GCP tried to explain itself and prevent the problem in the future. Today, we’re talking to Daniel Compton, an independent software consultant who focuses on Clojure and large-scale systems. He’s currently building Deps, a private Maven repository service. As a third-party observer, we pick Daniel’s brain about the GCP issue, especially because he wrote a post called, Google Cloud Platform - The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It’s Mostly Good). Some of the highlights of the show include: Recommendations: Use enterprise billing - costs thousands of dollars; add phone number and extra credit card to Google account; get support contract Google describing what happened and how it plans to prevent it in the future seemed reasonable; but why did it take this for Google to make changes? GCP has inherited cultural issues that don’t work in the enterprise market; GCP is painfully learning th