BIGQUERY ML VS VERTEX AI: COMPLETE COMPARISON

Choosing Between BigQuery ML and Vertex AI Generative AI

Making the right choice for your machine learning needs requires understanding the key differences between these powerful Google Cloud services.

GCP BUDGET API BETA RELEASED

You can finally set budgets via the API in GCP. This is a huge relief to all those org admins out there who have had to do this manually.

SIMPLIFIED FLINK MANAGEMENT WITH KUBERNETES OPERATORS

How I wish these operators had existed a few years ago when I was setting up Flink…

RUNNING FLINK IN PRODUCTION

This is a great watch for those beginning their journey with Flink.

MANAGING GCP PROJECTS WITH TERRAFORM

An invaluable start on how to start managing GCP projects with Terraform. I wish I’d found this a year ago.

TERRAFORM INIT: BEST PRACTICES FOR PRODUCTION

Rather than fully configuring your backend.tf in a file.```

terraform {
backend “gcs” {
bucket = “my-bucket-123”
prefix = “terraform/state”
}

GOOGLE EMBRACES TERRAFORM FOR CLOUD PROJECTS

I’m glad Google are finally starting to embrace Terraform by creating their own modules. Version 0.1.0 of the project-factory looks really promising.

VERVERICA PLATFORM FOR FLINK MANAGEMENT

The DA Platform is a huge step forward for running Flink at scale. I was lucky enough to see a demo and was really impressed. Far more advanced that the what can be achieved with Dataflow at the moment.

BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE SRE CULTURE

Here are some tips on how to create an effective SRE culture:

DELIVERING RELIABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE MICROSERVICES

Here are some tips on how to deliver reliable, high-throughput, low-latency (micro)services: