2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.Seeing one of our customers top 100,000 requests per second was the highlight of the year. That is enough capacity to answer a request by every single person on the planet in a single day. It feels that people can take our platform and change the world with new business models, cool applications, and knowledge sharing at a truly global level. The real exciting part for...
Friday, 27 December 2013
Thursday, 26 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.At the beginning of this month, we made Compute Engine Generally Available. It’s wonderful to see the great products our customers (like Brightcove, Cooladata, Evite, Fishlabs and Mendelics) are building on the Cloud Platform. And that they’re already seeing the benefits of Google’s scalability, reliability and consistently high performance. I’m also excited to see all...
Tuesday, 24 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.The addition of the PHP runtime to Google App Engine was undoubtedly the highpoint of my year. When we launched PHP support at Google I/O 2013, PHP was the top customer requested feature. By combining App Engine with Google Cloud SQL and Google Cloud Storage, we already see a number of pre-existing high-traffic PHP applications, like Motherboard, move to App Engine to...
Monday, 23 December 2013
Tools for monitoring, analyzing and optimizing cost have become an important part of managing cloud services. But these tools are difficult to build if the usage data is only in the Google Cloud Console. We are happy to announce a solution to this problem. The Billing Export feature addresses this need, and it is available in Preview. Once enabled, your daily Google Cloud Platform usage and cost estimates will be exported automatically to a CSV or...
Sunday, 22 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.Seeing customers like Snapchat grow on Google Cloud Platform is what gets me up in the morning. Its exciting to watch customers achieve new heights of scalability with less effort than was possible before. One of the features I worked on this year that was part of that scalability story is dedicated memcache. Dedicated memcache lets customers scale their caching capacity...
Saturday, 21 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.My highlight of this year was leading Google Cloud Platform talks and code labs in five cities around the world. Myself and colleagues gave talks about Google Compute Engine, App Engine, and the services that glue the fabric of the platform together. We had a great time speaking with all of the attendees, but my favorite part of this tour happened during one of the Google...
Friday, 20 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.My highlight from 2013 was speaking to developers from across the world at the Big Data Spain conference. I used the opportunity to share with people everything that we have accomplished with Big Query. Although every tool has its limits, it was a joy to review how many big data limits we broke during 2013. Some of the highlights included how to grow a database that already...
Thursday, 19 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.My highlight this year was enabling native connections for Cloud SQL instances and seeing how our use of open standards allows developers to use the whole ecosystem of MySQL tools and connectors with their cloud databases. Over the year, I have met many of our users and partners. It is always interesting to see how many developers are using Cloud SQL in applications that...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.In October 2013, we made Google Cloud Storage Offline Disk Import available to users in several international locations around the globe in limited preview. It is personally gratifying to witness how GCS Offline Disk Import enabled our customers to efficiently import tons of data to their GCS bucket without having to upload it over a slow or unreliable Internet connection....
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
We have published two new articles about best practices for App Engine. Are you aware of the best ways to keep Memcache and Datastore in sync? The article Best Practices for App Engine Memcache discusses concurrency, performanceand migration with Memcache to make you aware of potential pitfalls and to help you build more robust code. Do you know how to make your App Engine application faster and more scalable by using eventual consistency? If not,...
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.My highlight this year was bringing App Engine’s managed non-relational storage service, Datastore, to developers everywhere as Google Cloud Datastore. There are many use cases and applications where developers themselves want to manage the compute-side of the equation (lucky for them, we have world class VMs as well). That said, managing large distributed storage is...
Monday, 16 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.You only get a few chances in your lifetime to see a major technology shift, and we are lucky enough to be experiencing two at the same time: mobile and the cloud. The rise of smartphone and tablets are having a fundamental change in user expectations. And cloud computing is changing software development. My favorite moments this year were when we were able to bring...
Friday, 13 December 2013
With the recent release of App Engine 1.8.8 we are pleased to announce improvements to the Go App Engine SDK, including a new command-line interface, local unit testing facilities, and a configuration option to allow Go apps to handle more concurrent requests.The goapp toolThe Go App Engine SDK now includes the "goapp" tool, an App Engine-specific version of the "go" tool. The new name permits users to keep both the regular "go" tool and the "goapp" tool in their system PATH.In addition to the existing "go" tool commands, the "goapp" tool provides...
Thursday, 12 December 2013
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This guest post comes form Praveen Seluka, Software Engineer at Qubole, a leading provider of Hadoop-as-a-service. Qubole is a leading provider of Hadoop as a service with the mission of providing a simple, integrated, high-performance big data stack that businesses can use to derive actionable insights from their data sources quickly. The Qubole Data Service offers self-managed and auto-scaled Hadoop in the cloud along with an integrated...
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We're continuing to highlight partners we're working with for Google Compute Engine. Today's guest post comes from Misha Govshteyn, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Alert Logic, who discusses security in cloud environments.According to 451 Research, 92% of IT executives say security is their #1 concern when it comes to cloud adoption. Take a look at the data, however, and it tells a different story. For the last 2 years Alert Logic has been...
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Today’s guest blogger is Igor Lautar, senior director of technology at Outfit7 (Ekipa2 subsidiary), one of the fastest-growing media entertainment companies on the planet. Its flagship franchise Talking Tom and Friends has achieved over 1.2 billion downloads since its launch in 2010 and continues to grow with 170 million active users each month. In today’s post, Igor explains how the company has been successful building the backends of its entertainment...
Today’s guest post comes from Charlie Good, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Wowza Media Systems. We are excited to join the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program and delighted to be part of the GA release. Together, Wowza® Media Systems and Google provide a powerful, integrated streaming option for customers large and small, with the consistently high performance you expect from Google. The solution works for nearly any and every use case...
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
With the recent announcement that Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available, we thought you might also like to know about the many popular open-source solutions for interacting with Google Compute Engine. And now that Compute Engine support is built right into the tool, it makes it that much easier for you to try it out in a known environment.For programmatic access with popular programming languages, Google provides a general set of Client APIs for accessing Compute Engine, as well as other Google services. However, you may have code or...
Today's guest post comes from Amol Kekre, CTO and co-founder of DataTorrent.Scaling and performance are some of the most critical aspects when processing Big Data in real-time. When we started on Google Compute Engine we wanted to explore how the performance of a virtualized cloud environment would match the needs of our platform for high-throughput, Big Data computations while maintaining sub-second latency.DataTorrent is a real-time stream analytics platform designed to support today’s most demanding, high-throughput, Big Data applications. Many...
Monday, 9 December 2013
Today’s guest post comes from Martin Van Ryswyk, Vice President of Engineering at DataStax. The cloud promises many things for database users: transparent elasticity and scalability, high availability, lower cost and much more. As customers evaluate their cloud options -- from porting a legacy RDBMS to the cloud to solutions born in the cloud -- we would like to share our experience from running more than 300+ customers’ live systems in a cloud-native...
Today's guest post comes from Jon Dahl, VP of Encoding Services at Brightcove.Brightcove’s Zencoder transcodes millions of video and audio files each month, all in the cloud. We've worked hard to establish the Zencoder service as the cloud encoding performance leader and are constantly investigating ways to optimize the application and to architect the service around the best infrastructure available. So, we are very excited to announce the Beta availability of the Zencoder cloud encoding service running on Google Compute Engine.The Zencoder service...
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Today's guest post is from Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr. The company providies a web-based control panel for cloud infrastructure that serves as an interface between end users and the multiple cloud platforms that they use. In this post, Sebastian discusses benchmarks they conducted to analyze Compute Engine performance.At Scalr, we build a web-based control panel for cloud infrastructure, which serves as an interface between end users and the multiple cloud platforms that they use. Engineers use Scalr to achieve significant productivity gains,...
Saturday, 7 December 2013
Today's guest post comes from Ivar Pruijin, Product Manager at Cloud9 - a popular cloud-based IDE. In this post, Ivar discusses their work with Google Compute Engine.Cloud9 IDE moves your entire development flow onto the cloud by offering an online development environment for web and mobile applications. With Cloud9 IDE developers write code, debug, and deploy their applications, and easily collaborate with others - all right in the cloud. We’ve...
Today’s guest blog comes from Alex Pop, a cloud integration engineer at RightScale. RightScale is a Google Cloud Platform partner that enables leading enterprises to accelerate delivery of cloud-based applications while optimizing cloud usage to reduce risk and costs. With RightScale, IT organizations can deliver instant access to a portfolio of public, private, and hybrid cloud services across business units and development teams while maintaining...
Friday, 6 December 2013
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In addition to introducing Compute Engine in GA this week, we launched a new website for Google Cloud Platform and a new set of Cloud Platform logos:Now, none of this changes anything for you. New logos aren’t going to help you serve more requests-per-second (good news, you can already top 1 million). And they aren’t going to allow you to scale your caching capacity indefinitely or reduce your datastore costs (good news, dedicated memcache in App...
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