On: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

[lukasm]

Isn’t it risky to move to competition's infrastructure?

[Splines → lukasm]

Not really - many people rely on Google Cloud and if Google made it harder for Spotify to compete (via, say, raising prices for Google Cloud for them), they'd have to be pretty specific to Spotify to not cause other customers to move to AWS or Azure.

Spotify has much bigger risks in their licensing deals.

[lukasm → Splines]

cost it not a problem and google wouldn't do it. I'm talking about stealing recommendation algorithms and models. Have a peek new features before release etc.

[zenlikethat → lukasm]

Recommendation algorithms and models don't do you any good if you don't have users.

[lukasm → zenlikethat]

Google Music has a lot of users?

[lukasm → lukasm]

Seems googlers are down voting massively.

[beambot → lukasm]

IIRC, Netflix predominantly hosted on AWS. It's definitely a consideration, but focusing on core competency isn't bad either.