What does “null” mean? From Vocabulary.com — “Null means having no value; in other words null is zero, like if you put so little sugar in your coffee that it’s practically null” While the above is true in the context of the real world, in the programming world, the sentiment…

TL;DR — I found an unexplained billing in a supposedly empty project for the resource — “Networking Service Directory Registered Resource — D34A-7997–2D03”. Here’s how I got past and managed to remove this from my billing! As a very Asian dude in Singapore, I’m no stranger to what “Vampire power”…

So…while I was working out on the code and post for the first part of this series, “Getting Started Again!”, I felt that one particular bit did not fit as part of that introductory post, but was large enough that I felt it should have its own article on. Without…

A year ago, I started a series of exploring EKS in AWS — as seen here. This year, I thought, “Why not do that in Google Kubernetes Engine, in Google Cloud”, and here we are again! Using what I have built in AWS and my knowledge in GCP, I sought…

It’s been around 4 years since I held my first official role which allowed me to dabble in my engineering leadership skills. Ever since, I have participated in different capacities as a Tech Lead, and Engineering Manager, across different companies of varying products and scale. Yet, the journey…

Writing shell scripts fascinates me a lot. Something about being able to quickly and easily bring up some utility to simplify or even automate the manual effort brings some level of joy to me. However, working with shell scripts has its own quirks as compared to regular programming languages. For…

In this rapidly globalized world today, “translation” has become a key component in many of our applications today. Translating direct communications between users and the business is critical, especially for business that are going global and reaching new markets. Beyond direct communications, localizations is another key area for outreach, such…

This is the Part II of my breakdown of Google Cloud’s products — comparing the preview release of AlloyDB against Cloud SQL. See more on Part I for the detailed breakdown here. 1. Introduction

A year ago, I wrote about how we can explore different ways to monitor and optimize SQL queries for PostgreSQL databases provisioned with Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) Cloud SQL, given that they previously released a new feature for doing that — Query Insights! In the recent Google I/O, a new…