If you ask one thing to a developer who writes code about what pisses them off the most, chances are they'll crib about the fact that it's 21st century and the world still doesn't have a unified coding platform.?
For example, they still have to write separate pieces of code for their app specifically for Android and iOS, respectively. Platform level optimization to ensure their app (and the code behind it) performed at its best.?
This problem is even more compounded when you go beyond the smartphone arena, where there are just two major app ecosystems to contend with. For the technologies powering our experience on the Internet are complex, manifold and varied. Writing a piece of code for an online cloud technology and hoping it works to perfection is every developer's nightmare.
Anthos by Google Cloud
Well, Google's Anthos tool might just be what the doctor ordered for the health and sanity of millions of online coders worldwide, not to mention here in India as well. And the cloud service and solutions provider market is definitely showing signs of excitement and encouragement around it.
In the last year, there's been an upward trend in cloud adoption in India. NASSCOM says that cloud spending in India is estimated to grow at 30% per annum to cross the US $7 billion mark by 2022.
But unlike the smartphone picture from earlier, which is dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS, the online cloud market has many players. Amazon with its Amazon Web Services is the overall leader in the cloud market, followed by Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud Platform, respectively. Not just in India but globally.
Google Cloud
Of these big three cloud solution providers, Google Cloud Platform's share is the lowest, but analysts are bullish about its growth over the next 18-24 months. According to Canalys' April 2019 data on global cloud market, Google's revenue jumped by 85% since April 2018 -- the highest percent growth out of all cloud providers.
Not just a product but an umbrella term for a host of services, Anthos is Google Cloud's silver bullet and a cloud solution architect and developer's holy grail -- at least for now. It deals with data migration from one cloud to another seamlessly and aims to modernize online app deployments across the Internet.?
This includes writing a piece of code just once which will not only work in the Google Cloud but also work across competing AWS and Azure cloud deployments -- with zero edits. At least that's what Google's claim is, and it has not only customers like Tata Steel and L&T Financial Services but also partners like Deloitte and Cisco (which advice and work with clients on competing cloud solution providers) hopeful and cheery.
Anthos
Sarajit Jha, Chief Business Transformation & Digital Solutions at Tata Steel, believes Google Cloud Platform will allow them to go through "petabytes of structured and unstructured data that is not only waiting to be mined, but that we can generate intelligence from to create opportunities across our multiple lines of business."
"Today there are countless data points available about rural consumers which enable us to personalize our products to serve them better," says said Sunil Prabhune, Chief Executive-Rural Finance, and Group Head-Digital, IT and Analytics, L&T Financial Services. "With access to faster compute power, we can also on-board consumers more efficiently."
This sentiment is echoed by other prominent industry voices, too. Nitin Sawant, Partner, Deloitte and Craig Maynard, Director, Operation Sales, Data Center Technologies, Cisco, and Shantanu Rohatgi, Vice President, Infrastructure Management Services at Wipro Limited, also believe that Anthos and Google Cloud have demonstrated a game-changing cloud inter-operability model which is unique and in sync with what enterprise customers are demanding from the increasingly open source-based, modern cloud provider.