Using the Google Cloud Vision API with Node.js

You might have heard about Google’s new Cloud Vision API. If you haven’t, you should check it out. It lets you upload an image and get a TON of machine-learning based information out of it, including landmark detection, face detection, emotion…

Google Cloud Platform News Roundup for October 2015

Uploading, Resizing and Serving images with Google Cloud Platform

More and more applications today require their users to upload photos. From simple things like updating a profile photo, to more complicated services like Snapchat where you share a bunch of them. These applications…

A VM is a VM is a VM (or is it?)

When I hear that all IaaS clouds were created equal I feel like a decade or so ago arguing that Solaris 10 was actually bringing lots of innovation to the operating system market (Dtrace, ZFS, Zones). Google’s Compute Engine is adding unique features one at a time, to the point where…

Seamless deployments for servers in an autoscaler group of instances.

Written by Roger, Sr. Cloud Architect at Powerupcloud. Originally published at blog.powerupcloud.com on February 1, 2016.

The Developer Show — TL;DR 020

This week, I go over all the latest Google updates that span from a 360° tour of a Google Data Center to…