Okay, So what?

Well, you see, when you change branding, you also change what’s happening in the brand. Google started these changes by the end of GCP Next 16, it was pretty clear that Google is pushing more and more towards Enterprise. Diane Greene became SVP and started on her mission to get Enterprises on GCP. All this while, Urs Holzle been doing what he does best, building and extending the amazing infrastructure that Google runs on. But, somewhere during this time Google realized that open source efforts at Google, esp on Kubernetes and TensorFlow have grown considerably and product strategy might remain incomplete if they do not include Open Source into it. So they went ahead and got one of the best, Sam Ramji onboard. And then they were happy once again. But wait.. Come end of year, they realized that there are two types of folks in machine learning, academia and enthusiasts that they have been overlooking. Fei-Fei Li and Kaggle were acquired to complement the missing part and now the puzzle is solved. For now.

Umm.. what are we doing so far off from topic?

Well let’s take a flight to SF and have a closer look. And one day before the event, Sam Ramji and GCP team is having an event with Google Cloud Insiders (a group of users, evangelists and experts on GCP). What’s so special about doing this event? Well, one thing about Sam, his approach is rooted on ground up and hard truth. The event was a step forward from Google to embrace developers. Most of the developers/geeks aren’t used to getting hugged and the reactions swing, either they will love you or complain a lot. No, devs don’t hate people, they hate technologies that those folks use. Here Sam’s charisma played a major role. His answers are long and explanatory, rather than being cut short. He will hear you out and explain not only what they are trying, but also why. He connects to developers personally, he reads books that we have read and if he could, he would make all of Google open for you. He got his whole team in action. If you do not like Google’s Support, let’s talk. Not a fan of direction of Kubernetes, we are here. Confused between App Engine Standard, Flex and Cloud Functions, let’s call in experts.

Wait.. we have to be at Moscone, don’t get launched in space just yet.