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Breaking it down with Ian Brown

Oxide and Friends

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GCP vs Twitter - Is Twitter in the Cloud?

The decision point came down to like it's just way too fucking cheap for Twitter to run in particular. Ultimately, I think when we made decision to go to GCP really felt more like a high level sort of decision that sort of ignored some of the physics of both the cost of running on GCP versus running on Twitter. The, but there was always this continuous sort of drive right and this also goes back in a healthy way I think to the overall like keep questioning you know, you're you learned assumptions are learned helplessness right?

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