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The truth behind Google Cloud egress traffic
Like many public cloud providers, Google Cloud follows a network pricing model which doesn’t charge you for ingress traffic but will charge you for egress traffic to other zones, regions and internet.
Farewell, MaxMind! Geolocating requests with Google Load Balancer for free!
UPDATE: User-defined request headers are not longer free;
How Disruptive is Google Compute Engine *Live* Migration?
Google Compute Engine offers a really unique technology called “Live Migration” which keeps your instances running even when a host undergo downtime such as during software or hardware update.
Measure Once — Export Anywhere: OpenCensus in the wild
A few months ago, Google has announced OpenCensus, a vendor-neutral open source library for telemetry and tracing collection. OpenCensus makes it easy to collect metrics from your app and to trace the progression or requests.
Reduce Google Compute Engine costs by 60% with Zorya — GCE Instance Scheduler
Running non-production environments in the cloud is great. They are conveniently available to you at any time, right when you need them. But this convenience sometimes comes with a price tag.
Autoscaling Google Dataproc Clusters
Cloud Dataproc is an amazingly fast to provision, easy-to-use, fully-managed cloud service for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop clusters in a simple and very cost-efficient way.
Carefully calculating Google Cloud Storage Buckets size with Cloud Functions & Pub/Sub
Stackdriver estimations off and gsutil du too slow? Use Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery to automatically calculate accurate GCS bucket sizes from Storage Logs.
Analyzing Israeli weed market with Google Cloud DataPrep, BigQuery and TensorFlow
Let’s start with a short disclaimer — DoiT International does not promote, condone or advocate licit or illicit drug use.
Visualizing BigQuery jobs with Stackdriver, Cloud Functions, Firebase and Pub/Sub
At DoiT International, we are using Google BigQuery quite extensively as a data analytics platform for reOptimize (now part of Cloud Intelligence™) — our cost optimization platform for Google Cloud Platform.
How to predict your Google Cloud Platform monthly bill with Google CloudML & BigQuery
As some of you might already know, DoiT International is the engineering power behind reOptimize — Cost Discovery and Optimization SaaS for Google Cloud Platform.
Your cloud bill shouldn't be a mystery
Optimization, automation, expertise. In one platform.
How we saved over $240K per year by replacing Mixpanel with BigQuery, Dataflow & Kubernetes
Traditionally, a lot of companies rely on Mixpanel for product analytics to understand each user’s journey. However, if your product becomes a success and your volume of events is getting high, Mixpanel may become somewhat expensive. In this post we are going to review one of our projects with Jelly Button to design their own event-analytics solution based on Google Cloud Platform in a very efficient way and which is going to save Jelly Button about quarter million dollars each year.
Multi-Cloud Engineering Meetup — The first half of 2017 in review
The 2nd quarter of 2017 is over and now it’s time to summarize the Multi-Cloud Engineering Meetup group for the first half of the year.