My first story on the Google Cloud Platform cost optimization was about the hidden secrets of Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio). Let me tell you another story on how to find the source of soaring costs. …

I’ve been using Google BigQuery since its’ public release and I like where it has been going through all these years. The team behind the product is doing an amazing job and I do not remember any public feature with no apparent use case. One of the most noticeable BigQuery…

One of the best practices for storing service account keys is to rotate them on a regular basis. You can do that manually but it would be much better to have a kind of mechanism that doesn’t let you miss the date of key renewal. I will use some gcloud…

As a product person you are usually trying to find a balance between time to market and amount of value delivered to your users. In other words, if something produces a lot of value and you don’t have to spend ages before you release it — you are good to…

It was yet another online meeting where we discussed design patterns with my colleagues. Somewhere during the conversation I used the knowledge about disjunctive normal form in boolean logic as an argument to throw away some unnecessary UX elements. This saved us tens of hours on design validation and development…

Let’s start with a simple question: for each tool in my product what fraction of daily active users per day visits the tool? Maybe not so simple so let me add some assumptions to simplify the solution. Daily active user is the one who visits at least one tool per…

One of my weekly tasks brought me to Google Cloud Platform instance to deploy a tiny R script as a cron job. This script makes some data transformations and writes the results to Google Sheets. …

One of my responsibilities as a product manager is tracking the influence of product on key metrics like revenue or MRR. I also prefer to share this data with my team for us to be on the same line while we are developing new features or improving something that already…