alt Hacker NewsThe problem with many of these tools is they are built on lots of other tech, like S3 dev called out: https://x.com/haipingfu/status/2084880266858995990
Piper is built on lots of other tech like spanner and chubby and many others. And some of those have specific hardware requirements that only exist in Google datacenters. Untangling that web of tech is neigh impossible (or not something worth the cost to leadership).
Why is that a problem? They sell Spanner on GCP. Sell Piper as well! It's obvious as shit but Google doesn't know what it's doing anymore. They should have bought GitHub, not Microsoft, and then we wouldn't have had the problems with scaling GitHub either.