The Minutes of Gavin Baker on cloud https://minutesof.com/gavin-baker/on/cloud/ Everything Gavin Baker has said on cloud: 2 verbatim quotes between April 2020 and January 2022, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:21:44 +0000 Baker says Google was first cloud provider to stop competing with independent infrastructure software provider https://minutesof.com/q/b3e132bb-39ae-4740-ae72-439262de19b4/ https://minutesof.com/q/b3e132bb-39ae-4740-ae72-439262de19b4/ “But they try and force the open source infrastructure build themselves. And I think Google was the first one to realize, like, Hey, this is kind of silly.” — Invest Like the Best Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000 cloud Baker notes software is now 30% of IT spend, or 50% including cloud, versus 7-10% in 2008-09. https://minutesof.com/q/06ff6be5-3ceb-4746-af61-5830c6667b9b/ https://minutesof.com/q/06ff6be5-3ceb-4746-af61-5830c6667b9b/ “And today it's roughly 30% excluding spending on the big cloud hyperscale infrastructures and service companies like Azure, Amazon web services, and Google GCP.” — Invest Like the Best Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000 cloud