Google Cloud Platform

MapReduce programming model fundamentally changed the data processing world. The MapReduce pattern may be older, but Google’s MapReduce seminal paper and the Hadoop open-source distribution enabled programmers to run analysis on large data sets without having expertise in distributed servers and cluster management. Google published many such papers over some…

You want to schedule a cron job to send a message every hour to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. How do you do that? — Create a Cloud Function with a target of HTTP Create a Cloud Scheduler job with a target of HTTP Create a Cloud Function with a target of Cloud Pub/Sub Create a Cloud Scheduler job with a target of Cloud Pub/Sub Have you guessed the answer?! Answer 3. Create a Cloud Function with a target of Cloud Pub/Sub

Hello, everyone! Today, we’ll look at how we can use customised public or private Docker images hosted on Google Container Registry in our gitlab pipelines. Using default images in our gitlab pipelines is cumbersome and requires us to install a large number of dependencies each time we run our pipeline…

Scaling stateless services is simple. Scaling databases is not. Fully managed, serverless and auto scaling databases are the essence of “heavy lifting” that the cloud providers provide. These databases are a great opportunity for developers but also a challenge, because we need to choose which database to use and whether…

Another Google I/O is in the books! And just in case you missed it here is a wrap of what happened at Google I/O 2022! Throughout the pandemic, Google has focused on delivering accurate information to help people stay healthy. …

The GCP user interface is quite cool and really usable but some operations can be done without going on it and often, it can be faster. Let’s see for example how quickly we can see the projects in our GCP account and choose some to delete List the projects First…

Google BigQuery often seems to be Google’s magic tool, allowing you to browse huge amonts of data, via SQL, without worrying about the infrastructure. Small flat, magic does not exist! A certain number of levers allow you yo avoid some performance and cost disappointments! This series of articles will present…