![]() ![]() And fortunately, at the very same instance Pokémon Go was wasting a sizable chunk of my life, it was busy proving an important point: Containers are cool. Not surprisingly, for an app originating from the parent company of Google, it was the Google Cloud Platform. While I touched on the game itself, however, I didn’t really spend any time talking about where or how it was hosted. Which is actually a shame because, as I imparted in the aforementioned post, the story of how Pokémon Go was born was actually quite interesting. What life lessons did I learn, in all that time spent catching critters, that I can now impart in a public forum like this? Absolutely nothing. ![]() Knowing that status would forever be immortalized somewhere in the cloud, I somewhat unceremoniously and to the surprise of my kids, who had simultaneously mocked me while fraudulently assuming my persona when it suited them, deleted the app. Having made it through the end of the 2016 summer holidays, when most people of sound mind had stopped playing, I hung in there until mid-November, ultimately bidding adieu to Pikachu and hanging up my training pants having reached the moderately respectable level of 23. I know many of you have been itching to hear more about my adventures with Pokémon Go, following this wildly unsuccessful attempt to garner more page visits by lashing a highly targeted piece (QoS for the Internet of Things) with a universally broad and trending general interest topic. ![]()
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