But that “we-come-from-the-future” inventiveness seems largely in the past, particularly amid an exodus of engineers out of the cloud group. The platitudinous new Google Cloud mission statement seems unlikely to uncork a deep well of future innovation
They are grappling with deep neuroses from both Hadoop and Kubernetes, having failed to reap the associated credit and financial rewards they believe they deserved. The company’s previous open source idealism has run smack into both ego and the financial constraints under which Google Cloud now operates.