My biggest impression over the past couple of days is that I’ve been working too long and have forgotten just how huge Google’s technological advantages are. From college until now, I’ve always relied on Google Search, even though I hardly use their other products. When I started working, it was Google’s open-source MapReduce paper that shaped the big data industry. Then came containerization, then Google’s Kubernetes. Nowadays, the entire cloud computing industry seems to be based on Kubernetes, and our entire team develops on top of it. Even this wave of Google’s stock price increase has benefited our company, because we have partnerships with them.