At work we use Kubernetes. Last Friday I was talking to a colleague and we were wondering how load balancers, services and pods worked all together. Actually, everything is pretty well explained in the Services, Load Balancing, and Networking section from the…

HashiCorp’s terraform is a powerful and extensible tool for defining and creating cloud infrastructure in a repeatable way. At Olark we use it to manage a number of different environments on Google Cloud Platform…

The recently announced Java 8 support in Google App Engine Standard Environment is an important milestone. However, it is frankly a bit overdue and more importantly it may obscure some important changes that were made to the…

The big news this past week has been the release of Cloud Firestore — “Introducing Cloud Firestore: Our New Document Database for…