I’m now blogging on Medium
After 9 years of on-and-off blogging here on gregsramblings.com, I’ve started putting new content on medium. You can find me at https://medium.com/@gregsramblings Why? Because I want to manage/administer fewer things and focus more on creating content. I’ll eventually remap gregsramblings.com to a new medium publication, but several of my older posts still get decent traffic, […]
The first 360 degree video shot in a Google Data Center
Incredibly fun project that our team has been working on — use your mouse/trackpad to look around. Better yet, view on mobile or with Google Cardboard! Tip – if your internet supports it, view this video in 4K. The video wraps around you, so you need the high resolution! More info on the Google Cloud Platform […]
Let’s stop trying to visualize cloud computing as physical hardware
Until recently, I thought of cloud computing as the virtualization of physical hardware. I thought of virtual machines as servers, cloud storage as a collection of Internet-connected disks, and so on. To show how deep this mental model went for me, take a look at the screenshot below — it’s from a tablet app (iPad […]
Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform Service Mapping
As a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud Platform team, I am frequently asked what services we provide. If the person I’m talking to is familiar with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the quickest way to jump start an explanation of Google Cloud Platform is to start with a comparison to AWS’s similar services, then cover […]
Why Google Flights is Awesome – a Real-World Example
Google Flights does everything I’ve ever wanted in a flight search tool. You can of course search for all flights for a specific date, airline, departure airport, and destination airport, but you can also filter based on flight duration, number of stops, airline/alliances, flight times, etc.. Rather than list all of the features, I’ll show a real-world […]
Working with Google Cloud Storage Nearline using gsutil
Yesterday, we announced Google Cloud Storage Nearline. Here are a few simple examples of working with nearline storage using the gsutil command-line tool: Important links about Nearline storage: Nearline home page Nearline whitepaper Nearline documentation
Google Cloud Storage Nearline in 30 seconds
Today, we announced Google Cloud Storage Nearline. The announcement and various docs have all of the details, but here’s the quick scoop: It’s storage at $0.01/GB/Month! — so 1TB would be $10/month. Data retrieval is $0.01/GB (plus normal egres charges) Here’s the important part — Retrieval response time is only ~3 seconds (compared to 3 to 5 […]
Google Cloud Storage – Lifecycle Management
In my last post, Google Cloud Storage – “Initial setup, cp, and rsync“, I showed how to get started with Google Cloud Storage (GCS) including how to copy and rsync files to and from storage. A common use-case for GCS is backups. For example, I backup my blog content nightly to GCS, so after a year, I’d […]
Google Cloud Storage – Initial setup, cp, and rsync
During the past few days, I’ve been diving into Google Cloud Storage (GCS). You might assume that this is a boring aspect of Google Cloud Platform because cloud storage has been around for awhile, but I found some pleasant surprises in my exploration. Let’s start with a brief overview: Google Cloud Storage is not Google […]
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