#488 Issue
Feb. 2, 2026
Tag: Paywall
BigQuery Paywall Feb. 2, 2026BigQuery + DuckDB Together: The “Local Hot Cache” Pattern That Slashes Query Bills Without Losing Governance - This article proposes a "local hot cache" pattern using DuckDB alongside BigQuery to significantly reduce query costs. By keeping BigQuery as the governed source of truth and offloading frequently accessed "hot slices" of data to a local DuckDB instance, organizations can avoid expensive repeated scans.
BigQuery Paywall Feb. 2, 2026BigQuery Stored Procedures for Cost Guardrails: Quotas, Alerts, and Auto-Kill - Wrap “freeform SQL” in a safety harness: per-team quotas, proactive alerts, and a kill switch for runaway jobs — without slowing analysts….
BigQuery FinOps Paywall Feb. 2, 2026Query Labelling - How labels help you explain BigQuery spend and pinpoint cost drivers.
Paywall Python Serverless Feb. 2, 2026Serverless Django on GCP: Zero-Cold-Start Async Views for APAC Scale ($50/mo Budget) - Why GCP for Indian Developers? Cost, Speed, and Reality.
Paywall Feb. 2, 2026The Architect’s Blueprint: REST API Best Practices in Apigee X - Introduction.
Paywall Terraform Feb. 2, 2026Building a Vulnerable GCP Pentest Lab with Terraform - A complete, step-by-step guide to deploying intentionally misconfigured cloud resources for hands-on security training.
Microservices Paywall Feb. 2, 2026CAREER & PRODUCTIVITY - From Clicks to Prompts: Rethinking Production Support with GenAI.
DevOps Infrastructure Paywall Feb. 2, 2026Mastering Terraform CLI: The Hidden Configuration Powers That Transform Your Infrastructure… - When Your Terraform Workflow Becomes Your Bottleneck.
Paywall Feb. 2, 2026SEO is Dead. Here Are 6 Tasks That Actually Work in 2026 - They turned search into an industry. We turned it back into a craft.
Paywall Feb. 2, 2026A Complete Cloud Penetration Testing Walkthrough - How I Discovered Critical Vulnerabilities in a Cloud Environment Using Basic Tools and Methodical Testing.
AI DevOps Paywall Feb. 2, 2026I Cleared the GCP PCA Exam in 2 Days — 2026 - Here’s Why Everyone Else Studies The Wrong Way.
BigQuery Data Analytics Paywall Jan. 26, 2026Google’s BigQuery AI Converts Natural Language to SQL | by Valentin Podkamennyi | Jan, 2026 | Level Up Coding - Google introduces a new AI feature in BigQuery to generate SQL queries from natural language comments and accelerating data analysis.
AI BigQuery Paywall Jan. 26, 2026Stop Exporting Data to AI Services - Your Database is Now the AI Platform | by Rasiksuhail | Jan, 2026 | Stackademic - AI-Powered SQL Functions.
BigQuery Paywall Jan. 26, 2026BigQuery AI.SEARCH in Practice: When Autonomous Embeddings Beat Your DIY Vector Pipeline on Cost and Ops - A field guide for teams building semantic search and RAG: when BigQuery’s autonomous embeddings + AI.SEARCH are the “boring” choice that….
BigQuery Databricks Paywall Jan. 26, 2026I Analyzed $500K in Data Warehouse Bills — Here Are the 7 Biggest Waste Patterns | by Reliable Data Engineering | Jan, 2026 | Medium - An analysis of common cost inefficiencies across Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery implementations.
BigQuery FinOps Paywall Jan. 26, 2026BigQuery Cost Spikes Explained: Why Your “Small” Change Triggered 10× Spend (and How Pros Prevent It) - This article explains how seemingly small changes in BigQuery queries can trigger significant cost spikes, often by inadvertently increasing bytes processed, data shuffled, or query executions.
Apigee Paywall Jan. 26, 2026Environment vs. Proxy Variables in Apigee X | by idiot | Jan, 2026 | Medium - Introduction.
Paywall Jan. 26, 2026GCP的基礎知識-區域/VM與IP - 運用"雲端服務"加速企業的數位轉型願景 - Medium - Regions and Zones.
AWS Azure Paywall Jan. 26, 2026Why Most Companies Should Stop Chasing 99.99% Availability | by Shukla Chandan | Jan, 2026 | Medium - 99.99% availability sounds like excellence.
Paywall Jan. 26, 2026How Pub/Sub Messaging Transforms Modern Distributed Architectures | by Sumit K | Jan, 2026 | Medium - Before we dive into Pub/Sub and explore its capabilities in depth, it’s essential to first understand the fundamentals of messaging….
DevOps Paywall Terraform Jan. 26, 2026A Year of Platform Engineering, GCP Migration, and Hard Lessons Learned | by Sriram Mahalingam | Jan, 2026 | Medium - This post is a reflection on a year spent modernizing core platform foundations on Google Cloud. Rather than focusing on specific tools or….
AI Firebase MCP Paywall Jan. 26, 2026I Stopped Setting Up Firebase Manually, Here’s What Changed - What I changed in 2026 to make Firebase setup reproducible across teams and projects.
Firebase Paywall Jan. 26, 2026Firebase Just Got Relational: How to Use SQL in Your Next.js 16 App - The article introduces how Firebase Data Connect allows Next.js developers to integrate relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL via Cloud SQL, into their Firebase projects.
Firebase NodeJS Paywall Jan. 26, 2026Hosting Next.js 16 on Google Cloud (The Right Way) | by Jason Williams | Jan, 2026 | Medium - We need to talk about where your application lives after the honeymoon phase is over.
Flutter Paywall Jan. 26, 2026Build a Zomato‑style live delivery tracking system with Flutter | Medium - From order pickup to delivery: building a real‑time tracking app in Flutter.
Cloud Spanner Paywall Jan. 26, 2026Inside the Data Papers: Spanner. Welcome to Inside the Data Papers… | by Deepthi Indurthi | Jan, 2026 | Medium - Welcome to Inside the Data Papers Series. This is the third article in the Series. If you are interested in this subject, you can refer to….
Cloud Run Paywall Serverless Jan. 26, 2026Google Found a Way to Make Serverless Actually Fast - Google Cloud Run significantly improves serverless function performance by enabling sub-100ms cold starts when properly configured. This is achieved through a combination of startup CPU boost, lightweight gVisor sandboxing, and efficient concurrency management.
BigQuery Paywall Jan. 18, 2026BigQuery Adaptive Materializations: Auto-Refresh Policies Based on Query Heatmaps - This article details an adaptive strategy for optimizing Google BigQuery materialized views by leveraging query heatmaps derived from job metadata. This approach dynamically tunes refresh policies and max staleness based on actual query patterns and demand, utilizing BigQuery's recommender and user-defined thresholds.
BigQuery Machine Learning Paywall Jan. 18, 2026BigQuery Product Quantization UDFs: ANN Vector Search at a Fraction of the Cost - This article demonstrates how to achieve approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) vector search in BigQuery at a significantly lower cost. It details implementing Product Quantization (PQ) using User-Defined Functions (UDFs) to compress vectors, enabling a two-stage process of cheap shortlisting followed by precise reranking.
BigQuery Paywall Jan. 18, 2026BigQuery Row-Level Policies + Views: Tenant-Isolated Analytics Without Duplicate Tables - Keep a single shared fact table, enforce tenant isolation with row access policies, and publish clean analytics views — no per-tenant table….
BigQuery Google Analytics Paywall Jan. 18, 2026Inside the Data Papers: Dremel. Welcome to Inside the Data Papers… | by Deepthi Indurthi | Jan, 2026 | Medium - Welcome to Inside the Data Papers Series. This is the second article in the Series. If you are interested in this subject, you can refer to….
AWS Paywall Jan. 18, 2026Benchmarking AWS RDS vs GCP CloudSQL | by Aishwary Dhare | Zuka Technology Blog | Jan, 2026 | Medium - AWS RDS vs GCP CloudSQL with PostgreSQL running on an infra as identical as possible and nearby cost. This story is from a multi-part….
Apigee Paywall Jan. 18, 2026Your Proxy Should Only Allow Requests with a Custom Header — How Do You Do It in Apigee X? - This article demonstrates how to implement a custom header validation in Google Cloud's Apigee X to enhance API security. It explains how Apigee X proxies act as intermediaries to enforce policies, ensuring only requests with a specific custom header and value can access backend services.
AI FinOps Paywall Jan. 18, 2026From Dashboards to Autonomous Actors: The Agentic FinOps Revolution on GCP | by Praveen Bhushan | Jan, 2026 | Medium - The era of staring at Looker dashboards and chasing engineers to “please right-size your VMs” is coming to a close. Despite years of FinOps….
Data Science Paywall Retail Jan. 18, 2026The “Universal Translator” for AI Shopping: A Deep Dive into Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) | by Dr Sokratis Kartakis | Jan, 2026 | Medium - From browsing to buying: How AI Agents will safely negotiate and pay on the open web.
Paywall Terraform Jan. 18, 2026Terraform, Productivity at Warp Speed | by Pandu Malik | Jan, 2026 | DevSecOps & AI - What i learned of using Terraform for at least 3 years.
DevOps Paywall SRE Jan. 18, 2026Google Cloud for DevOps: The Essential Knowledge Stack | by Everton Araújo | Jan, 2026 | Medium - Transitioning to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) requires more than just knowing where the buttons are; it requires a shift toward Google’s….
Paywall Jan. 18, 2026A Quick Glace at all new TranslateGemma for Translating Texts! | by Abish Pius | Writing in the World of Artificial Intelligence | Jan, 2026 | Medium - Machine translation has quietly become one of the most mature applications of deep learning. Yet for many practitioners, deploying….
BigQuery FinOps Paywall Jan. 18, 2026BigQuery Table Valuation Functions: Quantify Cost per Query Before You Ship - This article details how to quantify BigQuery query costs *before* deployment using "table valuation" functions and dry runs. This proactive method allows teams to estimate bytes processed and forecast expenses, effectively blocking costly "oops" queries during development.
DevOps Paywall Python Jan. 18, 2026Why I Built My Own GCP Cleanup Tool Instead of Using Google’s - A Python CLI tool to delete unused GCP projects.
Paywall Jan. 18, 2026Google Cloud Just Made AI Agents Way Easier — Here’s What Fully Managed MCP Servers Actually Mean - Google Cloud just dropped fully managed MCP servers for AI agents, and honestly? This could change everything about how we build….
Cloud Build DevOps Docker Paywall Jan. 12, 2026From 161s to 17s: How I Reduced GCP Cloud Build Time by 89% - A production-ready CI optimization that cut build time, cost, and developer pain.
Cloud Memorystore Paywall Jan. 12, 2026Lessons from a Year of Cache Platform Modernization: Redis to GCP Memorystore - This article details the modernization of a caching platform, migrating from a Redis marketplace offering to Google Cloud Memorystore to enhance scalability and operational simplicity.
BigQuery Paywall Jan. 5, 2026BigQuery Multi-Project Mesh: Cross-Domain Datasets with Centralized Guardrails - This article details the BigQuery Multi-Project Mesh approach, which enables secure and governed sharing of cross-domain datasets across an organization.
BigQuery Paywall Security Jan. 5, 2026BigQuery Tag-Based Governance + Information Schema Audits: Enforce PII Boundaries in SQL - Use policy tags, resource tags, and metadata queries to stop accidental PII leaks — without turning analytics into a permission-ticket queue.
Apigee Paywall Jan. 5, 2026What Is the Purpose of API Products in Apigee X? - In Apigee X, API Products are fundamental components that package APIs with specific rules and access limits, acting as gatekeepers to control how different applications and partners consume them. These products enable crucial functionalities such as rate limiting, security, and monetization, ensuring a controlled, secure, and scalable API ecosystem.
Cloud Pub/Sub Java Paywall Jan. 5, 2026Google Cloud Pub/Sub: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Load Testing - This article outlines five critical lessons for effectively using Google Cloud Pub/Sub at scale, derived from extensive load testing in production environments.
Data Analytics dbt Paywall Jan. 5, 2026Building a €100/month Modern Data Stack with GCP, dbt & Dagster - Learn how I built a production-grade modern data stack for €100/month using self-hosted Airbyte, Dagster, dbt Core and BigQuery.
BigQuery Paywall Dec. 29, 2025BigQuery Token-Aware RAG: Hybrid Keyword/Semantic Search with Cost Caps - RAG demos are adorable right up until the first invoice.
BigQuery Paywall Python Dec. 22, 2025BigQuery + DuckDB Pushdown Planning: Split Queries to Minimize Slot Burn - This article outlines a pragmatic strategy to optimize Google BigQuery costs and performance by reducing "slot burn." It advocates splitting queries, using DuckDB for initial data filtering, shaping, and keyset staging to narrow down datasets.
Cloud Firestore Cloud Run Docker Firebase Paywall Dec. 15, 2025Deploy your app on Google Cloud Run with Firebase, Firestore and Docker - This guide walks through the full process of deploying an app on Google Cloud Run using Firebase with a Firestore backend.
AI Paywall Dec. 15, 2025Why I Paid Google $299 And Got $700+ Back (This Makes No Sense 🤯) - Google just launched a subscription that pays YOU more than you pay them. Here’s why every developer needs to know about this.
Apigee Paywall Dec. 15, 2025Difference Between PopulateCache, LookupCache, and InvalidateCache in Apigee X - This article clarifies the differences between three essential Apigee X cache policies: LookupCache, PopulateCache, and InvalidateCache. It explains that LookupCache checks for existing cached data, PopulateCache stores new backend responses, and InvalidateCache removes outdated entries. Together, these policies enable developers to optimize API performance, reduce backend load, and ensure data freshness within Apigee X proxies.
BigQuery FinOps Paywall Dec. 1, 2025BigQuery Cost FireDrill: Guardrails, Quotas, and Kill Switches - How to stop one bad query, one rogue dashboard, or one “quick export” from torching your entire data budget.
Paywall Workload Identity Dec. 1, 2025Stop Storing Cloud Secrets: How Workload Identity Federation Eliminates Static Keys - The most dangerous part of modern ML isn’t model accuracy. It’s the secrets we scatter across systems like digital landmines.
BigQuery Dataform dbt Paywall Dec. 1, 2025How We Migrated from dbt Cloud to GCP Dataform (And Saved Significant Cost) - Step-by-step process, feature comparison, and real-world insights for data engineers.
Firebase Google Analytics Paywall Nov. 24, 2025How to Set Up a Custom Firebase Auth Domain with Branded Emails (The Complete Guide) - Learn how to set up a custom Firebase auth domain and build Firebase branded emails for a clean, trusted sign-in experience.
BigQuery Paywall Nov. 17, 2025BigQuery Join Order: Let the Optimizer Win - How to write join-friendly SQL that’s fast, cheap, and easy to maintain — without micromanaging the plan.
BigQuery Paywall Nov. 10, 2025BigQuery Join Order: Let the Optimizer Win - Subtitle: How to write intent-driven SQL BigQuery can optimize — plus when to step in with hints and materialization.
AI Paywall Nov. 10, 2025Google Just Made RAG Ridiculously Easy with the New File Search Tool - Google has introduced a new File Search Tool within the Gemini API that simplifies RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) implementations. The tool allows users to upload various file formats, and Gemini then intelligently examines these files to answer questions, eliminating the need for separate vector databases or retrieval pipelines.
BigQuery Paywall Python Oct. 20, 20258 BigQuery Tricks from Python - Faster reads, safer writes, and cheaper queries using pandas-gbq, DB-API, and Arrow—without fighting dtypes or paying surprise bills.
BigQuery FinOps Paywall Oct. 20, 2025BigQuery Slots vs On-Demand: Choose with Math - A clear, numbers-first way to pick the right BigQuery pricing model — without vibes or guesswork.
Billing DevOps Paywall SRE Oct. 20, 2025Stop Google Cloud Bills Before They Spiral: Build Your Kill Switch - The article discusses the need for a "kill switch" to automatically disable billing in Google Cloud when budgets are exceeded, as budgets only provide alerts and don't prevent overspending.
BigQuery Paywall Oct. 20, 2025Vector SQL in Practice: Embedding Tables, ANN vs. Exact Search - BigQuery supports vector search, enabling users to store and query embeddings with SQL, choosing between exact brute-force search and fast ANN indexes. The article provides a practical guide covering table design, distance metrics, index choices (IVF, TreeAH/ScaNN), pre/post-filters, cost optimization, and testing strategies for production use.
Airflow Cloud Composer Paywall Oct. 13, 2025When “Scale Up” Just Scales the Pain: Debugging GCP Apache Meltdowns - The article provides a practical guide to debugging Apache meltdowns on Google Cloud Platform instead of just scaling up resources.
ADK Cloud Datastore Paywall Oct. 13, 2025Announcing a Datastore-Backed Session Service for the ADK - Use Cloud Datastore for persistent session storage in ADK.
BigQuery Paywall Oct. 6, 2025Data Types | BigQuery Cost Reduction Tier List Series | A Tier - How Data Type Choices Affect Query Speed and Storage Costs.
BigQuery Paywall Oct. 6, 202510 Cost-Smart Ways to Export Pandas → BigQuery - Practical patterns to move DataFrames into BigQuery without surprise bills — fast paths, right file formats, and safe upserts.
BigQuery Paywall Tutorial Sept. 29, 2025Learning PIVOT in BigQuery - A step-by-step guide to reshaping your data with PIVOT.
BI Engine BigQuery Paywall Sept. 29, 2025I Flipped a Switch in BigQuery and My Queries Got 75% Faster for Free - The Advanced Runtime is the next evolution of this powerhouse engine — a complete modernization of its core technology.
Kubernetes Paywall Sept. 29, 2025How to Securely Expose Envoy/Application with GCP LoadBalancer and DNS Automation - When running workloads in Kubernetes on Google Cloud, one of the most common challenges is exposing services securely and predictably.
Cloud Logging Paywall Rust Sept. 22, 2025A minimalist GCP logging library - "nano-gcp-logging" a Rust crate providing context-aware logging that adapts intelligently to its environment, automatically producing readable output during development and structured logs in production without requiring complex configurations.
BigQuery Paywall Sept. 15, 2025BigQuery Keyboard Shortcuts I Can’t Live Without - Save time, stay in flow, and make the BigQuery console work for you.
BigQuery Paywall Sept. 8, 2025A Case Statement Tutorial | BigQuery SQL | 2025 - The article provides a comprehensive guide to the CASE statement in BigQuery SQL, highlighting its flexibility in shaping data compared to IF statements.
AI AlloyDB Paywall Sept. 8, 2025Do you know what AlloyDB AI can do? - An overview of AlloyDB features that focus on AI.
Cloud Run GitHub Paywall Python Aug. 25, 2025How to Deploy Django to Google Cloud Run using GitHub Actions - This article guides users on deploying Django applications to Google Cloud Run using GitHub Actions for automated deployments.
Cloud Functions Cloud Run DevOps Paywall Aug. 25, 2025The Truth About Cold Starts in Google Cloud Run & Functions - This article explains how to optimize cold starts, and understanding the underlying mechanics can help developers reduce their impact.
BigQuery Dataform dbt Paywall Aug. 11, 2025Dataform CI/CD sucks. - The article discusses how companies can adapt Dataform to fit their needs when switching to other tools isn't feasible.
Big Data Paywall Aug. 11, 2025Choosing GKE Over Dataflow: What I Learned as a Data Product Manager - A true story of listening to your architect and understanding the invisible cloud sales incentives.
Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Paywall Aug. 11, 2025Understanding Google Kubernetes Engine pricing like a five-year-old - Google Kubernetes Engine pricing resembles renting apartments and paying for utilities, with costs for space used plus a management fee. Standard mode is like renting an entire building, offering full control but requiring self-management, while Autopilot mode is like a hotel, charging only for the computing power used. The article simplifies GKE costs into understandable components.
Cloud Load Balancing Cloud Run DevOps Paywall Serverless Aug. 11, 2025How to Add a Custom Subdomain to Google Cloud Run: Complete Guide with Load Balancer and SSL - Why Cloud Run Needs a Load Balancer for Custom Domains.
BigQuery FinOps GCP Experience Paywall Teradata Aug. 4, 2025How We Cut BigQuery Costs by 35% During a Teradata-to-GCP Migration - An enterprise migrating from Teradata to GCP reduced BigQuery costs by 35% by implementing detailed billing exports, usage dashboards, and Looker Studio visualizations.
AI Billing FinOps Paywall Aug. 4, 2025Stop Burning Money on GCP: Everything You Need to Know - “You can read the complete blog using “Friend’s Link” in case you are not a member of Medium yet!!”.
Firebase Paywall July 28, 2025Upload Documents to Firebase Firestore using Web API - A Step-by-Step Guide to Adding Documents to Firestore.
AI AlloyDB Paywall July 28, 2025Your Database Just Learned to Speak English: The AI Revolution Inside AlloyDB AI - AlloyDB is revolutionizing data interaction by embedding generative AI, enabling users to ask questions in natural language instead of complex SQL queries. This shift democratizes data access, allowing non-technical users to easily retrieve insights and analyze information, marking a significant change in the data landscape.
Cloud Bigtable Paywall July 21, 2025Mastering GCP cbt: From Beginner to Pro - The article is a guide to using the `cbt` command-line tool for interacting with Google Cloud Bigtable. It covers installation, authentication, basic commands, and configuration, providing a practical walkthrough for users of all levels.
Firebase GCP Experience Paywall July 21, 2025Why We Moved 10 Million Users Off Firebase (And What Broke) - And What We Replaced It With — Architecture, Benchmarks, Source Code & Lessons Learned.
Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Paywall July 7, 2025Integrating GKE with Google Cloud Services (Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, etc.) - The article discusses the importance of integrating Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with other Google Cloud services like Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage for building scalable microservices architectures.
Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Paywall Terraform June 30, 2025Building Super Reliable GKE Clusters for Your Most Important Applications - This article provides advanced strategies for building highly available and fault-tolerant Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. It covers network architecture, private clusters, node pool optimization, and application resilience techniques.
AI Data Science LLM Paywall June 30, 2025Talk to Your Docs: Building a Scalable RAG App on Google Cloud - Build a modular, secure, and scalable RAG system with Python, LangChain, and Google Cloud’s serverless stack.
BigQuery Paywall June 23, 2025Why My BigQuery Query Was Fast at 10K Rows and Died at 10M - The article discusses common mistakes when using BigQuery that can lead to performance issues when scaling from small test datasets to larger, real-world datasets.
BigQuery Billing FinOps Paywall June 23, 2025BigQuery Cost Management and Monitoring: In-Depth Technical Guide - BigQuery cost management is crucial as usage grows. The article provides techniques like table partitioning, query optimization, and audit log analysis. It also highlights the importance of understanding storage costs, including active and long-term storage, to control spending and maintain performance.
BigQuery dbt Paywall June 16, 2025How to Build Metadata-Driven Data Pipelines in BigQuery (+ dbt Examples) - Automate, validate, and orchestrate your BigQuery workflows with metadata logic — and make your data platform think for itself.
BigQuery dbt Paywall June 9, 2025dbt + BigQuery in Production: 13 Technical Practices to Scale and Optimize Your Data Platform - Best practices using dbt with BigQuery.
Billing DevOps Google Kubernetes Engine Paywall June 9, 2025This One Trick Saved Us Thousands on GCP Kubernetes in Staging - The article discusses how to reduce GKE staging environment costs by implementing automatic node scaling.
AWS GCP Experience Migration Paywall Terraform June 9, 2025Our AWS to GCP Migration: The Good, The Bad, and The Terrifying - Migrating cloud infrastructure is like switching the engine of a plane mid-flight.
FinOps Gitlab Paywall Terraform June 2, 2025GCP FinOps: Our Terraform Pipeline for Automated GCP Label Management - Automating GCP Project Labels with Terraform & GitLab CI/CD.
AlloyDB Paywall May 26, 2025Seamless Transition: Minimizing Downtime in PostgreSQL to AlloyDB Migrations - The article discusses a strategy for migrating PostgreSQL databases, specifically from Amazon RDS, to Google Cloud's AlloyDB with minimal downtime.
ADK Generative AI Paywall May 26, 2025Creating a Jira Agent in Google ADK - Using Google ADK to create Jira Agent.
AI Machine Learning Paywall May 26, 2025The Project that got me a handshake with Google Cloud’s CEO - Abish Pius recounts how participating in the Google Cloud MLB Hackathon and building a project with Gemini models led to meeting Google Cloud's CEO, Thomas Kurian, at Google Cloud Next 2025.
BigQuery Paywall May 12, 2025A Detailed Guide to Key Generation in BigQuery - This blog post will guide you through strategizing surrogate key management in BigQuery.
Cloud Run Cloud SQL Paywall May 5, 2025Minimalist Strategies for Optimizing SQL CPU Performance with Hibernate, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL - The article discusses strategies for optimizing SQL CPU performance in Spring Boot applications using Hibernate and PostgreSQL on Google Cloud. It focuses on minimalist techniques like fetching less data and optimizing joins to reduce CPU usage and latency without scaling infrastructure. The author emphasizes that significant performance gains can be achieved by simplifying data access and projection in medium-sized monolithic applications.
Cloud Pub/Sub Paywall May 5, 2025Mastering Google Cloud Pub/Sub Emulator: The Complete Guide - The article discusses the Google Cloud Pub/Sub Emulator, a local version of the Pub/Sub service that allows developers to simulate message publishing and consumption without using the actual Google Cloud infrastructure. It highlights the emulator's benefits, including cost savings, faster feedback loops, offline development capabilities, and suitability for test automation.
Google Kubernetes Engine Istio Kubernetes Migration Paywall April 28, 2025Multi-Cluster Networking with Multi-Cloud : Migrating to Google Kubernetes Engine with Istio - Organizations often manage workloads across multiple Kubernetes clusters, sometimes spanning different cloud providers. Istio Service Mesh can be leveraged to connect two Kubernetes clusters, one running in another cloud provider and the other in Google Cloud (GKE). This enables secure, observable, and controlled traffic routing between clusters, as well as seamless connectivity between workloads across both clusters.
Gemini LLM Paywall April 28, 2025Chatting With Dataproc Clusters Using An AI Agent - A Dataproc AI agent built using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK).
Infrastructure Migration Paywall April 28, 2025Migrating GCP Projects Between Organizations Without Breaking Things - This guide provides a step-by-step approach to migrate projects across organization to ensure a smooth migration with minimal impact.
Cloud Functions Javascript Paywall April 28, 2025How to programmatically schedule a Google Cloud function to run more frequently than once a minute - A function scheduling itself at sub-minute intervals in Google Tasks queue.
Cloud Datastore Java Paywall April 21, 2025Querying Google Cloud Datastore Using Spring Boot and DatastoreTemplate - This article explains how to use Spring Boot and the spring-cloud-gcp-data-datastore library.
Paywall Python April 7, 2025Tmux Is Tmagic - Leverage a subtle bash framework to execute data pipelines in the background, saving time for mission-critical tasks.
GPU Kubernetes Machine Learning Paywall March 31, 2025Multi Instance GPUs (MIG) in GKE - Multi-Instance GPUs (MIG) in GKE allows users to partition a physical GPU into multiple smaller, isolated instances, optimizing GPU utilization for AI/ML workloads. With MIG, you can run multiple workloads in parallel on the same GPU, improve GPU utilization for small-to-medium ML tasks, and achieve workload isolation and better scheduling granularity.
BigQuery Paywall March 24, 2025Oracle to BigQuery Migration: The Challenges, The Fixes, and The Wins - The article discusses the challenges, fixes, and wins experienced during the migration of an entire data warehouse from Oracle to BigQuery. The migration involved over 100 terabytes of data, 5000 tables, and complex transformation requirements. Despite encountering data type mismatches, SQL rewrites, performance issues, and hidden costs, the team successfully completed the migration and achieved a modern, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solution.
Firebase Paywall Vertex AI March 10, 2025Better Spending Habits with Firebase Genkit & Monzo - This article showcases a small integration built using Firebase Genkit, a new framework for adding AI into web and mobile apps. McMurdo found it easy to use and sprinkle some AI magic into his app.
BigQuery Data Science Paywall March 3, 2025Four missing Functions in BigQuery - And how to work around them.
Cloud Logging Paywall Feb. 24, 2025Mastering Google Cloud Logging: The Essential Guide for Developers - This guide provides a comprehensive overview of Google Cloud Logging, covering both basic and advanced concepts, to help developers effectively manage and utilize logs for their cloud applications.
Gemini Paywall Vertex AI Feb. 24, 2025Building AI-Powered Chatbots with Gemini, LangChain, and RAG on Google Vertex AI - This article provides a guide to build a chatbot that is using Gemini, LangChain, RAG, Flask, and a database, connecting a knowledge base with vector embeddings for fast retrieval and semantic search.
DevOps Paywall Security Feb. 17, 2025Keyless Auth To Google Cloud From GitHub Actions With Workload Identity Federation - Stop using long-lived credentials to authenticate Google Cloud from GitHub Actions and use Google’s recommended way.
AI Kubeflow Paywall Feb. 10, 2025Deploying Kubeflow on Intel Xeon CPUs on Google Cloud Platform - This article provides a step-by-step guide to deploying Kubeflow on GCP, including setting up a GCP project, installing Anthos, creating a Kubernetes cluster, and deploying Kubeflow.
BigQuery Dataform Paywall Feb. 3, 2025Export BigQuery Saved Queries programmatically - Hands on tutorial how to export/backup using the Dataform API your BigQuery saved queries.
BigQuery Paywall Jan. 27, 2025Efficient Management of SCD Type 2 Tables for Scalable Machine Learning Workflows - Unlocking historical data insights with optimized partitioning, clustering, and BigQuery’s advanced features.
BigQuery Java Paywall Jan. 20, 2025Spring Cloud 3.x integrates BigQuery - Spring Cloud 3.x integrates BigQuery. Applications can submit, query, and analyze data through BigQueryTemplate and perform large-scale data processing using common components of the Spring Framework.
Cloud Functions Javascript Paywall Jan. 20, 2025How to launch Puppeteer in Google Cloud Functions - When it is necessary to monitor a website, running Puppeteer in a scheduled Cloud Function can be the best option.
AI Data Science Paywall Jan. 13, 2025Taming the Tool Chaos: The Generative AI Agents & Tool Registry - A practical guide to managing Tools for Generative AI Agents.
AlloyDB Java Paywall Jan. 13, 2025Spring Cloud integrates AlloyDB - This article provides a complete example that shows how to connect to AlloyDB using a Spring Boot application.
Google Kubernetes Engine Paywall Workload Identity Jan. 13, 2025Understanding and Solving GKE Workload Identity Cross-Project Issues - This article explains how GKE Workload Identity works and provides a step-by-step guide to resolving cross-project setup issues.
CI Cloud Deploy Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Paywall Dec. 30, 2024Building a CI/CD System for Private GKE Clusters with Google Cloud Deploy - This article discusses the creation of a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads.
GCP Experience Google Cloud Platform Paywall Dec. 16, 20244 Years with Google Cloud Platform (GCP): The Good, the Not-So-Good, and the “Needs Work” - Honest take on GCP services — what shines, what lags, and what needs a serious overhaul.
Go Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Paywall Dec. 16, 2024Replacing GCP Secondary Backup with a Cost-Effective Kubernetes Operator Solution - Optimizing Database Backups: Cutting Costs, Increasing Flexibility, and Enhancing Observability with Kubernetes.
BigQuery Billing FinOps Paywall Dec. 16, 202410 Optimisation Tips to Reduce Your Mighty BigQuery Cost - 10 ways to reduce your eye watering BigQuery bills.
Apache Kafka Google Kubernetes Engine Paywall Dec. 9, 2024Integrating GCP Secret Manager with Kafka Connect Using External Secrets - This guide shows how to securely inject secrets stored in GCP Secret Manager into a Kafka Connect deployment running on Kubernetes.
BigQuery Data Analytics Paywall Dec. 2, 2024Dynamic Query Execution for Sharded Tables in BigQuery - Using EXECUTE IMMEDIATE to clean up rows from multiple sharded tables in BigQuery.
Cloud KMS Paywall Dec. 2, 2024How to Set Up HashiCorp Vault in Kubernetes with GCS and GCP KMS: A Complete Guide - HashiCorp Vault is a secure secrets management tool that stores sensitive information like passwords and API keys. This guide shows you how to set up Vault in Kubernetes using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for secure storage and management of secrets. By combining Vault and GCP, you can enhance the security, scalability, and professionalism of your infrastructure, regardless of your organization's size.
Paywall Python Serverless Dec. 2, 2024Serverless Automation for GCP Project Liens - Serverless Automation for GCP Project Liens is a guide on how to set up an automated way to add a project lien to every project in your organization in order to prevent accidental project deletion.
BigQuery Paywall Nov. 18, 2024Essential BigQuery SQL Tips for GA4 Analysis - This guide provides essential BigQuery SQL tips for analyzing Google Analytics 4 (GA4) data. It covers understanding GA4's data structure in BigQuery, handling nested fields, and extracting meaningful insights. The guide is designed for beginners and offers step-by-step instructions to get started quickly.
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Knative Kubernetes Paywall Oct. 28, 2024Implementing Scale-to-Zero with Knative: A Comprehensive Guide - Implementing a scale-to-zero solution using Knative, a Kubernetes-based platform that offers powerful serverless capabilities. Covers both external and internal traffic patterns, and provide step-by-step instructions for building a basic scale-to-zero application. Prerequisites include a Kubernetes cluster, Knative Serving component, kubectl CLI tool, Docker, and optionally the kn CLI tool and a container registry account.
Cloud Functions Javascript Paywall Oct. 14, 2024Accessing secured Google Cloud functions from the browser - Making HTTP requests from browser extensions to Cloud functions requiring authentication.
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Cloud Composer Paywall Security Sept. 23, 2024Critical GCP Composer Flaw Exposed: How CloudImposer Almost Led to Remote Code Execution - Google Cloud Platform's Composer, a workflow orchestration service, had a critical vulnerability named CloudImposer that could have led to remote code execution.
Artifact Registry Cloud Functions Paywall Python Sept. 16, 2024Managing Python Dependencies in Cloud Functions - Python Packaging to Google Artifact Registry.
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BigQuery IoT Paywall Python Aug. 12, 2024IoT Data Logging and Device Control with GCP: Setting Up Google Cloud Functions and BigQuery for Teracom TCG140–4 - Tutorial with step-by-step setup of Teracom TCG 140–4 with Google Cloud Function and BigQuery database for remote data logging.
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