Xenobroom Inc., a young startup fresh out of Silicon Valley started a lengthy process of upgrading their server infrastructure back in May 2020. According to the remaining fragments of CEO's daily journal and CTO's engineering notes, the company enjoyed a sharp rise in daily use in the midst of the global pandemic. Soon after, the decision to migrate the existing infrastructure to Kubernetes was made.
The site name’s a play on “The Onion” so it’s gotta be satire, right? I couldn’t find an about page to confirm.
Yeah I thought it was satire until I read that. I can’t think of an explanation for Google’s product decisions in any other way