Persistent Disks in Google Compute Engine allow you to take point-in-time snapshots of your disks. Once a snapshot is taken, it’s globally available and can be restored to any zone, even if the zone where the disk was originated is hit by a meteor. On top of that, it’s easy to create and manage snapshots. These two features make snapshots very appealing as a backup solution. However, there are some details you need to take into account in order to use snapshots safely for backup.First, let’s take a peek on how snapshots work. A snapshot is an exact...
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed MySQL service hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Today, we are embracing open standards and expanding customers’ choice of tools, technologies and architectures by adding support for native MySQL connections. MySQL Wire Protocol is the standard connection protocol for MySQL databases. It lets you access your replicated, managed, Cloud SQL database from just about any application, running anywhere. Here are some of the top features enabled by the MySQL Wire Protocol:Low latency connections from applications running...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Did you know that every Google Compute Engine instance, regardless of region and zone, can communicate to every other instance over a project private network? It really is very simple to execute “ping my-european-instance” from a US virtual machine and have it work without any complex cross region configurations. If you're an experienced developer who has deployed Cloud apps before, but not yet on Google Compute Engine, you might not know that all...
Monday, 21 October 2013
Today's guest post comes from Michael Anthony, Technical Director at TwinStrata. TwinStrata is a Google Cloud Platform technology partner that simplifies storage expansion and disaster recovery by making cloud storage look and feel like local storage.One of the most common use cases for cloud infrastructure - and particularly cloud storage - is data backup and recovery. It’s logical, after all: If you have your data and infrastructure in the cloud - or at least backed up to it - the cloud serves as an ideal secondary location, immune to localized...
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Today’s guest post comes from Maarten Balliauw, Technical Evangelist at JetBrains, the vendor of smart developer tools such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, PhpStorm, Android Studio and many more.At JetBrains we are building tools that aim to enhance developers’ productivity by automating routine tasks and helping you concentrate on coding. Our IDE for PHP, PhpStorm, provides seamless integration with Google App Engine for PHP — allowing you to locally...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Apps Script started out as a simple tool to let developers add new features to Google Apps, but it’s grown into a programming platform that thousands of professional coders use every day. We hear a couple common requests from developers when they’re building complex projects with Apps Script: they want a full-featured IDE, and they want to sync to external version-control systems like GitHub.Today, we’re introducing support for Apps Script in the...
The App Engine team had a great time at Zendcon last week. Watch Peter Magnusson’s keynote, titled “The Rise of the Cloud Native Developer”. In case you missed it, he announced that the PHP runtime is now in Preview.The new SDK for the October release of App Engine 1.8.6 is now available for download. This release focuses on improvements and bug fixes, which you can read about in the release notes.-Posted by Chris Ramsdale, Product Mana...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
We believe that building in the cloud is a quicker way to build new apps, but just how quick? Michael Piccuirro, director at R/GA, told us, “things that we would have taken years to build, we’ll be able to produce in weeks or months.”R/GA is an international digital marketing agency that develops large, interactive experiences for its clients, working with brands such as Nike, Johnson & Johnson and MasterCard. In Michael’s words, R/GA chose Google Cloud Platform “because it’s a great tool that allows us to build solutions very quickly and deploy...
Saturday, 12 October 2013
Storing and analyzing billions of records is complicated. That’s why we try to make it as easy as possible to simplify your analytics needs. Watch this video to see how Tableau and Leanplum tackle Big Data using Google’s infrastructure. Both of these companies are using BigQuery on Google Cloud Platform. You’ll hear from Francois Ajenstat, Director of Product Management at Tableau, about what he thinks is the “difference between the old way and the Google Cloud Platform way.”-Posted by Benjamin Bechtolsheim, Product Marketing Mana...
Friday, 11 October 2013
In June, we unveiled the new Google Cloud Console, bringing together all of Google’s APIs, Services, and Infrastructure in a single interface. Across Google, we want to make sure that you have an easy way to work and build across all of our platforms. That’s why we’re focusing on improvements to the Cloud Console so you can get things done faster.We’re introducing a new navigation bar, making it easier to switch between pages. The new bar is designed...
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Modern web apps, such as online banking apps, often need to keep session information, which requires special support from the load balancing so that you keep getting connected to a server that has the necessary context information to help you. With the latest update to Google Compute Engine Load Balancing, you now can spread the load while tracking sessions using the client IP address. When enabled, this feature ensures that all requests from the...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Mobile backends enable you to create connected mobile apps without writing server-side code. Today we are simplifying server-side development for iOS developers with Mobile Backend Starter for iOS. With our Mobile Backend and Objective-C client libraries you can:Store data in the cloud and share between usersSend device-to-device push notificationsUse continuous queries to notify devices of data changesAuthenticate users using Google AccountsMobile...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
At Google I/O earlier this year, we added PHP, the fourth language runtime on Google App Engine in Limited Preview. Today we’re moving to Preview, making PHP on App Engine available for everyone immediately. It is no longer necessary to whitelist your application for deployment.PHP is one of the world’s most popular programming languages for web programming today. Since the runtime was launched at Google I/O earlier this year, thousands of developers around the world have started using App Engine for PHP, taking advantage App Engine’s legendary...
Monday, 7 October 2013
“Finally she sat in the wee little chair and it was just right. But Goldilocks rocked so hard in the chair that it broke into pieces!” The Story of the Three Bears by Robert Southey (1837)Getting auto scaling just right is one of the hardest things about cloud apps. Scale too slowly and you can't meet customer demand. Scale too quickly and you pay for more than you need. For new applications in particular, you might need to have strong prediction...
Friday, 4 October 2013
Imagine: it's almost 3 AM and you would really like to speak with an expert about the best way to launch the new version of your application before your big event tomorrow. Who do you call?Ever since we launched our support packages in February of this year, our support team has been helping our customers 24 hours per day seven days per week. And now we have made it even easier to sign up for a support package: starting now, you can instantly sign up for Silver or Gold support via the Google Cloud Console. That means that you no longer need to...
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Developers come to Google Cloud Platform for a range of purposes - whether building a game that’s played by millions of users, crunching big data or sharing digital media around the world.In this video, Rovio, Shutterfly, Leanplum, R/GA, Webfilings, Brightcove, Appscale and others tell us how they are harnessing the power of cloud computing at Google speed and scale. -Posted by Benjamin Bechtolsheim, Product Marketing Mana...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Once you get your data into Google BigQuery, you don’t have to worry about running out of machine capacity, because you use Google’s machines as if they were your own. But what if you want to transform your source data before putting it into BigQuery and you don’t have the server capacity to handle the transformation? In this case, how about using Google Compute Engine to run your Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processing? To learn how, read our...
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