Which actually goes to the heart of the issue. Who cares what Google had? MySQL and Postgres existed - Amazon RDS first came out in 2009, and you could run DBs on EC2 before that.
Google famously uses lots of custom versions of infrastructure software while the rest of the world uses something else. Obviously that has served then extremely well, but the rest of the world wants stuff they are familiar with. It really took Google years to fully grasp that.
Google famously uses lots of custom versions of infrastructure software while the rest of the world uses something else. Obviously that has served then extremely well, but the rest of the world wants stuff they are familiar with. It really took Google years to fully grasp that.