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> That’s my experience with any of the 3 hyperscalers when reading docs. I used to hate the AWS docs, now I use Azure and I hate that so much more. At least AW
by disgruntledphd2 19d ago
> That’s my experience with any of the 3 hyperscalers when reading docs.
I used to hate the AWS docs, now I use Azure and I hate that so much more. At least AWS had loads of (bad) docs that you could string together to figure out how to do something. With Azure, there's just no docs (except for bad videos), and they literally tell you (at the top of every page) that you can do this with AI (I know I can do it with AI, but I'd prefer if I could read your docs to make sure the machine isn't doing something dumb).
My expectation is that I'll end up on GCP in a few years, and that will be bad in hilariously different ways.
- abofh 19d agoYes, gcp has volumes of available accurate documentation, but it's almost entirely incomprehensible and bizarrely undiscoverable by search
- ferngodfather 18d agoIf only they had a parent company that specialised in search
- alasdair_ 19d agoGCP is famous for having two ways to do everything: the undocumented way and the deprecated way. You choose.
- disgruntledphd2 19d agoI've been making this joke about Google (big tech in general) for years. There are two ways to do everything; one is deprecated and the other is not yet feature complete. Glad to know that they're allowing their customers a taste of what it's like to work at Google.
- alasdair_ 15d agoI heard it when I worked at Niantic right when they spun out of Google. Maybe they stole it from you :)
- vrosas 19d agoI feel like I'm the only person on HN that doesn't have any major (or cliche) problems with GCP, even after using it for a decade at this point. Like it's not perfect and I've hit weird roadblocks along the way but I've dabbled AWS and I currently use Azure at work and those are hilariously bad in their own ways, people just seem to kind of be used to it?
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- antonvs 19d agoI like GCP as well, having previously used AWS for many years. The biggest issue is that it's taken Google a long time to figure out what enterprise security is - it's not something what was in their DNA - and the product shows it. They're too focused on weird fancy half-assed "beyond" solutions to properly implement the basics. They dangle clever federated etc. solutions that only work in some circumstances so that you're better off just avoiding them, but the more basic alternatives are limited in their own way because they focus too much on the fancier solutions.
- icedchai 19d agoI find GCP's developer experience to be superior to AWS. Maybe it's just me, but I found Cloud Run to be super simple to use compared to ECS/Fargate. The "gcloud" command structure also makes more sense to me.
- disgruntledphd2 19d agoI haven't used much GCP, I'm just being snarky.
- creamyhorror 19d agoYep, if someone thinks AWS docs are rough, wait till they try Azure docs!
- soco 17d agoThe Azure documentation is learn.microsoft.com, I'm not sure why you mean there's nothing (or only videos). Just saying.