HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN CRYPTOCURRENCY

To create your own cryptocurrency, you will need to: Create a blockchain. This is the underlying technology that will support your cryptocurrency. There are many different blockchain platforms available, such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, and EOS. Design your cryptocurrency. This includes deciding on the name, symbol, total supply, and distribution method. You will also need to create a mining algorithm. Create a wallet. This is where your cryptocurrency will be stored. There are many different wallets available, both hardware and software. Mine your cryptocurrency. This is the process of adding new blocks to the blockchain and earning rewards in the form of your cryptocurrency. List your cryptocurrency on an exchange. This will allow people to buy and sell your cryptocurrency. Here are some of the steps involved in minting your own cryptocurrency:

FIXING GCP IAM PERMISSION ISSUES AFTER OUTAGES

After the recent GCP outage related to IAM, I found some odd behaviour with gsutil/gcloud. A script that had faithfully run for many months stopped working with:

BIGQUERY ML VS VERTEX AI: COMPLETE COMPARISON

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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.