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…

If you’re here, you must have used Kibana and its dependency, ElasticSearch, before. If not, here’s a quick crash course. You log events in your running application, both as a “structured log” of different properties (e.g. JSON object log entry), or “unstructured log” (e.g. Single english sentence). …

As I was trudging through access control issues in the last chapter, I found that there were scalability issues with the current implementation. This short chapter will recap the issues and fixes for the tooling for scalability, as well as how to test whether full horizontal scalability has been achieved. …

As of 30th April 2022, I’ve gotten CKA-certified!!! 🥳 🎉 Oops, not to say that this will be a self-congratulatory post (though I would be hard-pressed to admit that it kind of is). This is also not a post to teach you how to pass this exam, since there are…

In the last two chapters, we have been mostly occupied with the initial setup of EKS, along with initial monitoring tools for understanding our cluster better. What about onboarding our teammates onto our EKS Kubernetes cluster, and assigning different groups of teammates the appropriate access rights? Let’s explore that today! …

Let’s get to the point — what is “Value Creation”? Well, it is the process of transforming resources of any kind or form (time, money, materials, etc.) into something that an organization values. But…why does it matter to us? It matters because it justifies your reason for belonging to any…

After a week or so of toiling, we’re back! This week, I want to discuss tools that we can use to monitor/manage our clusters. Each one of these tools can be used individually, but it doesn’t hurt to have them installed altogether. And they represent solutions from both the web…

Are A/B testing / feature flags / progressive rollout / remote configuration hard to set up for a web application? It definitely seems so from a raw perspective (e.g. doing it from scratch). However, with the multitude of tools available to us today, it’s a much easier task to achieve…