As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was granted a bunch of Google Cloud Platform credits. I’ve started using them, and here are my initial thoughts:
- There is a Cloud Platform service for most of the use cases I can imagine for my project. This means that there are a lot of options to consider.
- It’s already becoming clear that there’s a fair bit of platform lock-in, even if you only consider the technical debt incurred by shoehorning existing code into Google services.
- The costs are about in line with what I expected. I’ve been coding against the platform pretty intensively for three weeks now, and it has cost me $43.32 in credits so far. In brief, more than I’d be willing to spend from my own pocket. I’m quite willing to spend the credits they’ve given me, though.
- Ironically, some of these tools are very hard to google! Good luck getting precise technical help when searching terms like “google cloud function”!
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