Airflow for Google Cloud: Part 1 — BigQuery

You know Big Data… it’s a dirty business. All the literature shows you how powerful all those data crunchers and query engines are, but it all assumes that all the data is ready to be consumed. In reality a lot of automated Dataflow, Spark and BigQuery…

Continuous Delivery in a microservice infrastructure with Google Container Engine, Docker and Travis

Code Cooking: Kubernetes

Welcome to Code Cooking with chef Christiaan!

Today we’re going to prepare a nice web burger. It will have a base of HTML, served on nginx by Kubernetes. Burgers are often associated with fast food, so we are going to make sure it’s ready to eat in no-time.

Distributed Tracing Spring Boot Microservices with Stackdriver Trace

How to automate project creation using gcloud

We are going to run a training session for about 30 people on Cloud ML and wanted to give each of them a pristine Google Cloud project to work in. Also, I wanted to have the bills come to me. Obviously I didn’t want to point and click my way through…

How to reduce latency of your Google Cloud Endpoints APIs

Apache Cassandra Clusters on Google Cloud (GCE)

When it comes to 1click installs for a wide range of solutions (not only Apache Cassandra, but other relational and non-relational databases, application servers, appliances and whatnot), there are prebuilt solutions available for every major…

Infrastructure as Code on Google Cloud Platform: Load Balancers

Part 3 in an n part series on what I’ve learned using Google’s deployment-manager (GDM)

It’s been a while since my last post, and I could blame it on the holidays or my health or family, but I…