Following BigQuery’s lead, CloudSQL now gets the Editions treatment… Introduction This week, Google announced that following BigQuery, CloudSQL is also getting the editions treatment. This gives customers a further choice when selecting a database for their workload in GCP. …

…and if so — what is the future for containers? Introduction As a sequel to my earlier “Are Terraform’s days numbered?” post, today I want to address a different question that Julio Ortega posed in the comments on that post. Are Kubernetes days numbered? For those who aren't familiar with Kubernetes…

A practical guide to ensuring a single source of truth for identity. Introduction I am a big advocate for ensuring a single source of truth for identity. At a previous employer, I even spearheaded work to consolidate three different sources of identity across different systems down to a single source. …

An exploration of Kubernetes Resource Manager and the Google Config Connector Introduction Are Terraform’s days numbered? Quite a bold question when you consider its prevalence in the orchestration of infrastructure, especially in public cloud and my preferred flavour of Google Cloud where Google’s own Cloud Deployment Manager is practically unused (and…

Is Google Cloud Backup and DR a revolution or an evolution? Introduction First, I have a confession to make. I care more than most people about backup and DR, in fact, I started my career managing storage arrays and data protection for a global systems integrator. To this day I still…

With BigQuery, Cloud Functions, and Google Chat Webhooks The cloud is constantly changing with new features being released daily and Google Cloud is no exception. …

A practical take on ‘zero trust’ with Google’s BeyondCorp Enterprise — Introduction “Perimeter Security is Dead” There, I said it — and I am far from the only person to come to this conclusion (cf. my CTS colleague Jonny O’Connell’s excellent recent blog post about this very topic). …

Taming spiking BigQuery workloads using Cloud Functions, metrics and the slot estimation tool. — PLEASE NOTE THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BEFORE BIGQUERY EDITIONS SO IS LARGELY IRRELEVANT A brief introduction to BigQuery BigQuery is one of the strongest tools in Google Cloud’s toolbox. For those who aren’t familiar, it is a petabyte-scale, serverless data warehouse tool that can be queried with SQL. This makes it extremely popular in a lot of organisations that are driving data-driven transformation. The data from…

In this post, I don’t really want to cover how I got here, I have already covered that in my earlier posts: Adventures learning GCP, the path to multi-certification, the Google Database Engineer Beta Exam, and the latest exam, the Associate Cloud Engineer, already has plenty of resources to help…