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Safe Scrub: Clean up your Google Cloud projects.
By Joshua FoxJul 16, 20206 min read

Safe Scrub: Clean up your Google Cloud projects.

Safely delete the resources cluttering your Dev and QA projects.

View GCP User Role Assignments
By Garrett SchaefferJul 6, 20201 min read

View GCP User Role Assignments

Often, when troubleshooting user access we need to understand the roles assigned to a user. When using email or similar electronic…

Too Many Threads in Cloud Pub/Sub
By Joshua FoxJul 5, 20201 min read

Too Many Threads in Cloud Pub/Sub

How to slim down the Publisher to a manageable amount of threads.

You can handle pods, but what about clusters?
By Joshua FoxJul 1, 20207 min read

You can handle pods, but what about clusters?

Introducing a new tool for cloning clusters between the Google, Azure, and Amazon clouds.

Apache Ignite — A Do-It-All Key/Value DB
By Zaar HaiJun 22, 20207 min read

Apache Ignite — A Do-It-All Key/Value DB

Redis for hot cache; Cassandra/CouchDB for large datasets… What if there was DB that can do it all?

Using zetaSQL to analyse query syntax for BigQuery
By Eben du ToitJun 18, 20203 min read

Using zetaSQL to analyse query syntax for BigQuery

Using a C++ based parser for the fastest possible analysis of a SQL query.

How to Copy Data Inside BigQuery
By Joshua FoxJun 15, 20202 min read

How to Copy Data Inside BigQuery

Copying data between your own tables in BigQuery has become much easier in recent years. But there are still many ways to do it…

How to deploy Dataflow pipelines using SQL
By DavidJun 12, 20202 min read

How to deploy Dataflow pipelines using SQL

Combining the new Dataflow SQL with the power of Google BigQuery

Connecting Cloud Functions To Redis (Memorystore) With Serverless VPC Connector
By Mike SparrJun 9, 20201 min read

Connecting Cloud Functions To Redis (Memorystore) With Serverless VPC Connector

Quick and easy way to get cloud functions and Redis working in one simple script

Multi-Cluster Istio 1.5 with Private GKE Clusters and Google Cloud Internal Load Balancer
By Marius PalimariuJun 5, 20204 min read

Multi-Cluster Istio 1.5 with Private GKE Clusters and Google Cloud Internal Load Balancer

This tutorial shows you how to build a private multicluster service mesh solution, with Istio 1.5 and Service Mesh Hub for mesh Federation…

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Optimization, automation, expertise. In one platform.

Increase Log Retention Using Google Cloud Logging CLI
By Mike SparrJun 1, 20202 min read

Increase Log Retention Using Google Cloud Logging CLI

How to override logging defaults with a simple command.

How to Structure Your Enterprise on Google Cloud Platform
By Mike SparrMay 22, 202011 min read

How to Structure Your Enterprise on Google Cloud Platform

Step-by-step tips from the trenches for enterprises looking to start in Google Cloud with the right foot forward.