Thread by @swardley

X : You have doubts on GCE?
Me : I've had doubts for a long time -

https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1063524332285161472

... I think it's pretty clear they are nearly out of the running now, it's only a matter of how long they can keep taking the losses. No offense but the gameplay really isn't there.

X : What about kubernetes?
Me : Winning a battle by losing the war. The high ground you wanted to own is serverless but that fight is almost over. Amazon won etc.
X : I think you're wrong.
Me : Everyone tells me I'm wrong ...

Me : I had 100+ execs telling me I was wrong in a meeting and the future was Virtual Data Centres. Then it was VCE and vBlock. Then it was Exalogic. Then it was OpenStack. Then it was Docker. Now it's Kubernetes ... I'm very used to people telling me I'm wrong. C'est la vie.

We had our chances to create a competitive open environment ... Eucalyptus, Cloud Scaling, Cloud Foundry but they all got absorbed or entrapped by others and sent down the wrong paths. This is a tough game and to be blunt, most execs aren't upto it. Never have been.

But there's no shame in that, it's always good to understand your limits. Google has given it a try, a really good try but ... sometimes you have to lick your wounds and know when you've been beat.

X : Where would you play today?
Me : You have to move up the stack, above the run time. Conversational programming? Something in that area.