Technoglitch
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A decade ago, the Swedish startup built its seminal streaming music service atop a small number of machines inside a Scandinavian data center, before expanding across this facility and into data centers in the United Kingdom and the US. Now, Spotify has resolved to move its entire service out of these data centers and onto cloud computing services operated by Google.
Google is best known for running a search engine, an email service, a maps app, and so many other online tools for the world’s consumers. But a big part of the company’s genius is that, over the last decade-and-a-half, it has built a worldwide network of machines that can run all those consumers services with unusual speed and efficiency. And in recent years, it has invited other business and coders to build their own software on this vast online infrastructure, so they needn’t worrying about running their own machines. This is called cloud computing.
Spotify Moves Itself Onto Google’s Cloud—Lucky for Google | WIRED
Google is best known for running a search engine, an email service, a maps app, and so many other online tools for the world’s consumers. But a big part of the company’s genius is that, over the last decade-and-a-half, it has built a worldwide network of machines that can run all those consumers services with unusual speed and efficiency. And in recent years, it has invited other business and coders to build their own software on this vast online infrastructure, so they needn’t worrying about running their own machines. This is called cloud computing.
Spotify Moves Itself Onto Google’s Cloud—Lucky for Google | WIRED