Another brief ‘how to’ for those who need to pull and push to someone else’s upstream GitHub pull request (PR). I was working on a teammate’s GitHub pull request for Project OCEAN (a current focus of mine) to help close it out. Since her pull request came from her own…

Are you trying to use Go to get files into Google Cloud Storage without pulling them onto the computer that is running the code or open them and read the contents into a new file? If yes, so was I not long ago. …

Let’s talk about end user authentication. I’ve been digging into the authentication space a bit and have some takeaways to share. When you access a GCP service, there is authentication to determine who you are, authorization to determine what you can do and auditing that logs what you did. …

Hello again. I am sharing a couple things I learned when working with Docker recently. Main points are how to pass in environment variables, setup Google Cloud SDK in Docker and turn on debugging. Since I haven’t written about Docker before, I’ve provided a brief overview of Docker to give…

Oh the fun I’ve had learning Cloud Functions. It has actually be fun while also frustrating and definitely enlightening to explore serverless services that are supposed to make things easy. Granted I’ve been around long enough to know there is always ramp up, even when it is simple. Cloud Functions…

When working with tables in BigQuery, you need an understanding of a dataset structure whether it is public or you set it up and you want to review. This is a quick bit to share queries you can use to pull metadata on your datasets and tables. In the following…

Providing a quick overview on how to setup and switch between Google Cloud projects with the SDK on a single machine. This is helpful when working with multiple projects (especially when collaborating) and you are using Cloud SDK. Setup & Authenticate The following steps are needed whether creating a project for the first…

When training a neural net model, time is of the essence. This is why different machine configurations including GPUs, TPUs and multiple servers are utilized. I’ve been exploring the YouTube-8M project for the last couple months and there are previous posts about the project, the video dataset, the algorithms and…

Continuing the YouTube-8M exploration and blog series, this post walks through how to use AI Platform to train, evaluate and run predictions for the this dataset. Not surprising, it sets up servers faster than the server I manually configured. The posts prior to this one provide an overview of the…