nealmueller

Andromeda is one of the many reasons Quizlet observed this: "We tested snapshotting with 400 GB SSD drives given 300 GB of random data. On AWS, we observed snapshot times around 8 hours, while on GCP the same operation takes about 6 minutes." https://quizlet.com/blog/whats-the-best-cloud-probably-gcp/

I work at Google.

AWS wasn't first with per second billing. As the GCP blog states, GCP Persistent Disks had it since 2013.

(I work for Google)

AWS wasn't first with per second billing. As the GCP blog states, GCP Persistent Disks had it since 2013.

(I work for Google)

I worked on this product release, at Google. Can you guide my eye please where we don't specify TB? I'll get that fixed. I took a look and it says TB. @nealmueller if that's easier for you.

Today’s Internet is not moving data as well as it should. TCP sends data at lower bandwidth because the 1980s-era algorithm assumes that packet loss means network congestion.

BBR models the network to send as fast as the available bandwidth and is 2700x faster than previous TCPs on a 10Gb, 100ms link with 1% loss. BBR powers google.com, youtube.com, and apps using Google Cloud Platform services.

Unlike prior TCP advancements like TCP QUIC which required a special browser, BBR is a server-side only improvement. Meaning you may already be benefiting from BBR without knowing it. BBR requires end users to make no improvements. This is especially relevant in the developing world which use older mobile platforms and have limited bandwidth.

Thanks!

The other comments here are correct. The standard model for these appliances is a rental model. Please talk to a GCP seller.

One of my favorite songs. Doesn't apply here though. Iron Mountain has a service today to move data out of GCP.

Good idea, thanks for the suggestion. The interest is interesting, and I'll definitely feed that back. I felt the pain recently myself when I moved all my photos and videos to Google Photos and I wished I had one of these.

Good idea, thanks for the suggestion. It does seem more open for the appliance to ship data to the cloud and also the reverse. The interest is interesting, and I'll definitely feed that back.

Hahaha, you got me there. Althought, to be fair, Snowmobile is an entirely different product category. Same problem, different scale of solution. It's like Starbucks coming out with a truck solution, when all you wanted was a Venti.

This product is built by the team that joined through bebop, a $380M acquisition which came with Diane Greene, who now heads Google Cloud (Chief of Cloud), and Bogomil Balkansky who now heads Hired (VP).

https://venturebeat.com/2016/01/04/google-paid-380m-to-buy-b...

The gif says it all. See which apps access your business data and limit access to the ones you trust.

More detail on the region: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney

MySQL and Spanner performance flips as QPS climbs. MySQL latencies are lower (better) at 3000 QPS and higher (worse) at 9000 QPS, than Spanner. Spanner latency is basically unchanged, while MySQL latency has jumped.

>Right now, the company is still in the process of migrating the last of its users’ attachments to GCP.

I wonder if Evernote users can tell if they are on GCP or the previous infrastructure. I suspect not.

Can this be true? ‘Pokémon GO’ is about to surpass Twitter in daily active users on Android. Wow.

Thanks for catching. Fixed.

The authors have noteworthy bona fides. Andy used to work for the NSA, and Nelly has 16 patents with names like "Informed implicit enrollment and identification".

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-honig-82239750 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelly-porter-708a10b

Also, everyone seems surprised at this nugget, "Only 4% of my drivers are women ." I wish there was something we could do to make it feel safer for female drivers.

Like with uberPOOL, it's a tradeoff of money and time. In this case it was a tradeoff of $20 and 5 minutes finding Nethaji on upwork vs. what I felt was going to be a bit longer to setup the scrape, debug it, scrape it, and QA it. I have friends that are good at it but I felt bad bothering them.

I work at Google. The final bullet in the CIO Summary on Keyczar was a typographical error, taken from our paper on encryption at rest (https://goo.gl/hSordh). It's since been removed from this Security Design Overview. The encryption at rest paper goes into additional detail and includes the important clarification that while a very old version of Keyczar was open-sourced, the open-sourced version has not been updated to reflect internal developments.

We updated the terms. It's now reads "The Products and Services logos may be used to accurately reference Google's technology and tools, for instance in architecture diagrams". I hope this clarifies that we want you to use them externally (e.g. blogs, twitter, slides, white papers), and not just privately.

Can swarm workers be programmed to control vast flocks on Lambda?

These would never be useful to me, because I've never had anything go wrong – said no one ever! Hah. I love these.

Not yet, it's a great idea. What language would you like?

Here's what design told me, "In the diagrams context - the blue hexagon represents GCP product. The goal is to differentiate GCP from other products and services." My read on this is that blue hexagons makes sense in the context of a heterogenous architecture, but the blue hexagons do not provide value (as you note) if your diagram is all GCP.

Good feedback–and rational. I'll ask the designer to consider removing the blue hexagon and making the icons glyphs. The design predates me. There might be an equally rational explanation for why it is the way it is, and it's worth asking.

These examples were created by GCP for the GCPNext 2016 event. There were used to start discussions for user needs. Experts in the specific verticals were consulted in developing the diagrams, but they are not recommended or validated designs--not detailed enough. The diagrams are intended to spark discussions, and so you don't have to start from scratch.

I'm one of the GCP icon library people, but I'm not a collaboration tool expert. With that said, I have tons of tool opinions, as I'm sure many knowledge workers do. Here's my tips on when to use which tool.

#1 use a collaborative tool #2 use a collaborative tool that all your collaborators will use easily #3 use a collaborative tool that makes you very efficient

Lucidchart and other specialized tools will make you more efficient for diagramming because they have snap-to and other pro features, but they won't pass test #2 for some places. That's why we gave you both versions.

What version, templates and tools would you like us to add? Draw.io? Any others?