Well, my thoughts after three days of Google (Next + Community).
The upsides ... open source focus, GA on functions, Cloud IoT & Edge chips, Istio, AutoML, DAML as a Service, Google Maps ... lots of goodness to look into.
The upsides ... open source focus, GA on functions, Cloud IoT & Edge chips, Istio, AutoML, DAML as a Service, Google Maps ... lots of goodness to look into.
The bits I understand but I have a concern with - GKE on prem. I understand the desire to create a market, a marketplace of certified apps, knative and the potential to create a distributed serverless platform this is all good and provides a path for many enterprises ... but ...
... I have a concern that the serverless narrative was overshadowed, especially in the keynotes. Again, I understand the play of building a market and moving up the stack, my issue is timing.
The bad ... there wasn't really anything bad. I'm uncomfortable with the more "enterprise" feel but I understand why. The keynotes didn't really speak to me in the way I had hoped. Mapping and Cloud IoT were stand outs for me and I loved the Istio / Cloud function sessions.
What would I change? Personally for me, I feel signposting the talks more clearly in the beginning would have helped ... I do understand they had a portfolio of things to get through ...
... but the one thing I would (personally) have done is ramp up serverless in the keynotes, to provide a much stronger vision - it's all there, I thought @bretMCG was excellent but it needs elevating.
I do understand that this may put me at odds with some in the K8s / container community ... I view both as important but ultimately invisible susbsystems. For me, it's a question of focus and where to target and narrative is important in this.
Overall, has Google Next been a good experience so far ... yes. It's well worth attending. I particularly enjoyed the fireside chat between Greene, Hennessy & Patterson.
