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Cloud giants will turn backend open-source software into a corner case
“So I just think Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are, like, absolutely, like, moving far, far away from the pack in terms of their ability to create infrastructure software. So I feel like from now on it's like their game to write our databases and our message qu…”
The NYT cannot build a viable business on third-party tech platforms
“We don't think it's a good delivery vehicle for our product, and we also don't think we can build a business in any of the platforms, really.”
Rockwell calls BigQuery Google Cloud's most differentiated and unequaled feature
“Yeah, that, that, that was, and I would say still is the most differentiated element of GTP, and I think it's still unequal, at least in like cloud accessible mass you know, large scale available databases, that kind of thing.”
AWS's instance-based business model forces customers to pay for unused capacity
“Amazon's core instance-based business model, which is basically predicated on selling me a lot of things that I barely use and forcing me to pay for them.”
Pursuing complete cloud portability leaves key features and value behind
“If you're trying to, like, be completely portable you're leaving a lot on the table.”
The NYT had over 4 million paid subscribers in Q3 2018
“Yeah, a little higher than that one year, a bit higher. I think that was the third quarter number.”
NYT subscriber growth in 2018 extended beyond the 2017 'Trump bump'
“I think we really passed the Trump bump a while ago, probably even mid to late-thousand 17, so what we saw in 18 was something different was actually, I think, real momentum, and the beginning of Well, not the beginning, but the continuation of our sort of acc…”
The New York Times migrated almost all infrastructure to Google Cloud
“This is like the culmination of a long process that we'done to migrate almost everything we're doing to Google Cloud. I'm still a certain asset running at Amazon. So in general, we're doing all of our data processing on Google's data infrastructure now and mos…”
Cloud competition will drive a tenfold increase in compute efficiency
“Provided there's sufficient competition between the cloud platforms, which I think there is, where it ought to drive, you know, a tenfold increase in efficiency and Compute, I would think, and you know, corresponding cost savings”