cloud-test: December 2014

2014 Year in Review: Making open source #1 through Kubernetes and Google Container Engine

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Today’s post is the latest installation in our 2014 Google Cloud Platform Year in Review. Every day until early January, we will be featuring a different Googler sharing their highlight from the past year in Cloud Platform.

Becoming the most popular orchestration framework on GitHub with ~5200 stars.

Watching the community around Kubernetes grow, including having Microsoft and IBM sign on to support Kubernetes within a month of launch.

Seeing multiple PaaS providers, including OpenShift, Deis and Cloud Foundry, embrace Kubernetes as a standard orchestration framework.

Watching Google Container Engine help you guys do more and more and account for ~2% of Google Compute Engine instance use within a month of launch.

Seeing an Apple job posting with Kubernetes listed as a desired skill!

2014 Year in Review: Awards Season

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

2014 Year in Review: Redefining Compute in the Cloud

Monday, December 29, 2014

We took the first steps towards ending the PaaS/IaaS dichotomy by giving developers the ease of use and productivity of App Engine and the flexibility of VMs with beta launch of App Engine Managed VMs. Customers shouldn’t have to make a binding decision about what level of the stack they want to build their applications at. The launch of Managed VMs and Google Container Engine make it possible to run the same code as a fully managed application, as a unit of code in a managed logical cluster, and in a self-managed Virtual Machine

The launch of sustained use discounts makes it very easy for our customers to automatically benefit from up to 30% lower prices for their sustained workloads without any long-term commitments.

2014 Year in Review: Meeting face-to-face in Europe

Sunday, December 28, 2014

2014 Year in Review: A growing partner ecosystem

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Today’s post is the latest installation in our 2014 Google Cloud Platform Year in Review. Every day until January, we will be featuring a different Googler sharing their highlight from the past year in Cloud Platform. click-to-deployCI&T,Happiness Flagspecial Sandbox experienceGoogle I/OPhilips hueEmindReal Time PlatformMongoDBCassandraRabbitMQLaunchpad

2014 Year in Review: Launch of Zones in Asia Pacific

Friday, December 26, 2014

2014 Year in Review: To our customers, “Happy coding to all, and to all a good night!”

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Today’s post is the latest installation in our 2014 Google Cloud Platform Year in Review. Every day until January, we will be featuring a different Googler sharing their highlight from the past year in Cloud Platform. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” ‘Twas the year of 2014, and all through our cloud Were innovative customers making us proud. They build on our platform day after day,Impacting their industries in tangible ways.
There’s Framestore, making movies like Gravity shine,And DataStax, keeping customers running at all times. Sony Music built an app for a YouTube livestreamAllthecooks scaled up fast, even with a small team.
U.S. Cellular analyzed data for key sales insightsAnd Aucor transitioned more than 70 websites.Coca-Cola unveiled a big Happiness Flag,While Channel 2 delivered news without any lag.
“We use multi-cloud”, said Eugene from WixSlow radiology scans is what MNES did fix. With Akselos, bridges and buildings won’t fall,And switch.co transformed the conference call.
Workiva makes financial reporting a breeze,And feedly lets you collect news stories with ease.DotCloud built a reliable PaaS, While Fastly and Brightcove deliver live video, fast.
More rapid than eagles, new products they cameDevelopers whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:“App Engine! Cloud Storage! BigQuery! Cloud SQL!Compute Engine, and Dataflow-- we love them all equal!”
And we exclaimed to our customers, who bring us such delight,“Happy coding to all, and to all a good night!”

2014 Year in Review: Ending Server Side Bottlenecks with Google Cloud Trace

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

2014 Year in Review: Working to bring you the best in visual effects

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

2014 Year in Review: Reaction to our second Google Cloud Platform Live

Monday, December 22, 2014

Welcome to the Google Cloud Platform 2014 Year in Review blog series. Each day for the next two weeks, we will be featuring a different Googler sharing their highlight from the past year in Cloud Platform.

2014 Year in Review: Evolved troubleshooting with Cloud Logging

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Geofencing 340 million NYC taxi locations with Google Cloud Dataflow

Friday, December 19, 2014

Posted by Thorsten Schaeff, Sales Engineer Internexperimenting with itupdateNYC neighbourhood tabulationthis public BigQuery tableyour Google Developers Consolethis link

Thematic map showing the distribution of taxi pick-up locations in NYC in 2013. Midtown South is New Yorkers’ favourite area to get a cab with almost 28 million trips starting there, which is roughly 1 trip per second. You can find an interactive map here.

beautiful visualizationsCloud DataflowBigQueryGoogle Developers BlogAPI I built on App EngineJava Topology Suite

The interactive Cloud Dataflow graph of your Pipeline, helping you to monitor and debug your Pipeline in your Google Developer Console in the browser.

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As cash tips aren’t reported, only 52% of trips have a tip noted, therefore the values regarding tips could be inaccurate.Here's

(click to visit interactive map)

BigQuery tablethis gistLondon's black cabs

1 As cash tips aren’t reported, only 52% of trips have a tip noted, therefore the values regarding tips could be inaccurate.

Google Announces Open-Source Cloud Dataflow SDK for Java

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Google Cloud DataflowCloud Dataflow SDKFlumeJava

Spur future innovation in combining stream and batch based processing models: Reusable programming patterns are a key enabler of developer efficiency. The Cloud Dataflow SDK introduces a unified model for batch and stream data processing. Our approach to temporal based aggregations provides a rich set of windowing primitives allowing the same computations to be used with batch or stream based data sources. We will continue to innovate on new programming primitives and welcome the community to participate in this process.

Adapt the Dataflow programming model to other languages: As the proliferation of data grows, so do programming languages and patterns. We are currently building a Python 3 version of the SDK, to give developers even more choice and to make dataflow accessible to more applications.

Execute Dataflow on other service environments: Modern development - especially in the cloud - is about heterogeneous service and composition. Although we are building a massively scalable, highly reliable, strongly consistent managed service for Dataflow execution, we also embrace portability. As Storm, Spark, and the greater Hadoop family continue to mature - developers are challenged with bifurcated programming models. We hope to relieve developer fatigue and enable choice in deployment platforms by supporting execution and service portability.

Dataflow SDK for Java on GitHub

Apply for access to Cloud Dataflow's managed service

Learn more through the documentation

Take part in the conversation at StackOverflow [tag: google-cloud-dataflow]

Hello World: We are the Cloud Developer Advocate Team

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

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Aja Hammerly

@thagomizer_rb

Aja just joined Google as a Developer Advocate. Before Google she spent 10 years working as an engineer building websites at a variety of web companies. She came to Google in order to help people use Google's amazing cloud resources effectively on their own projects.

Fun Fact

Aja learned to solve a Rubik's Cube by racing the build at her first dev job.

Brian Dorsey

@briandorsey, +BrianDorsey

Brian Dorsey aims to help you build cool stuff with our APIs and focuses on Kubernetes and Containers. He loves Python and taught it at the University of Washington. He’s spoken at both PyCon & PyCon Japan. Brian is currently learning Go and enjoying it.

Fun Fact

Brian speaks Japanese.

David East

@_davideast

David is passionate about creating resources and speaking about them to help educate developers. A military brat, David has moved over a dozen times in his life.

Fun Fact

David once broke his leg in the middle of the wilderness and had to crawl back to civilization.

Felipe Hoffa

@felipehoffa, +FelipeHoffa

Felipe Hoffa is originally from Chile and joined Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

Fun Fact

He once went to the New York Film Academy to produce his own 16mm short films.

Francesc Campoy Flores

@francesc, +FrancescCampoyFlores, Site

Francesc Campoy Flores focuses on Go for Google Cloud Platform. Since joining the Go team in 2014, he has written several didactic resources and traveled the world attending conferences, organizing live courses, and meeting fellow Go-phers. He joined Google in 2011 as a backend software engineer working mostly in C++ and Python, but it was with Go and Cloud Platform that he re-discovered how fun programming can be.

Fun Fact

Francesc celebrated his 30th birthday riding a bike wearing a red tutu from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

Greg Wilson

@gregsramblings, +GregWilsonDev, Site

Greg Wilson leads the Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocacy team and has over 25 years of software development experience spanning multiple platforms, including cloud, mobile, web, gaming, and various large-scale systems.

Fun Fact

Greg is a part-time pro-photographer and a struggling jazz piano player.

Jenny Tong

@baconatedgeek, +JennyMurphy, Site

Jenny comes from the Firebase family at Google and helps developers build realtime stuff on all sorts of platforms. If she's away from her laptop, she's probably skating around a roller derby track, or hanging from aerial silk.

Fun Fact

Jenny once ate discount fugu puffer fish from a supermarket. It was priced less than $0.10 per piece. Somehow, she survived.

Julia Ferraioli

@juliaferraioli, +JuliaFerraioli, Site

Julia helps developers harness the power of Google’s infrastructure to tackle their computationally intensive processes and jobs. She comes from an industrial background in software engineering and an academic background in machine learning and assistive technology.

Fun Fact

Julia once deleted her entire thesis with a malformed regular expression, which she blames on lack of sleep and bad coffee. One good night's sleep outside the sysadmin's door restored it from the tape backup, and luckily only a couple of paragraphs were lost!

Kazunori Sato

@kazunori_279, +KazunoriSato

Kazunori Sato recently joined the team after working as a Cloud Platform Solutions Architect for 2.5 years. During that time, he has produced over 10 solutions and has been hosting the largest Google Cloud Platform community event in Japan for the past 5 years, as well as hosting Docker Meetup in Tokyo. He will be one of our resident experts in Japan on BigQuery, BigData, Docker, Kubernetes, mBaaS and IoT.

Fun Fact

Kaz’s hobby is playing with littleBits, RasPi, Arduino and FPGA and having fun connecting them to BigQuery.

Mandy Waite

@tekgrrl, +MandyWaite, about.me

Mandy is working to make the world a better place for developers building applications for Cloud Platform. She came to Google from Sun Microsystems where she worked with partners on performance and optimisation of large scale applications and services before moving on to building an ecosystem of Open Source applications for OpenSolaris. In her spare time she is learning Japanese and plays the guitar.

Fun Fact

Mandy has been studying Japanese for some time now, in the hopes of of one day working in Japan and travelling the country in search of Cicadas.

Ossama Alami

@ossamaalami, +OssamaAlami

Ossama is focused on Firebase, making sure developers have a great experience building realtime apps on Google Cloud Platform. He has worked as a software engineer, consultant, developer advocate and engineering manager at a variety of small and big companies. Prior to Firebase he was Head of Developer Relations for Glass at Google[x]. In the winter he can be found snowboarding in the Sierras.

Fun Fact

Ossama has worked on 8 different Google developer products: Ads APIs, Geo APIs, Android, Commerce APIs, Google TV, Chromecast, Glass and now Firebase.

Paul Newson

@newsons_nybbles, +PaulNewson, Site

Paul currently focuses on helping developers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform to solve their big data problems. Previously, he was an engineer on Google Cloud Storage. Before joining Google, Paul founded a startup which was acquired by Microsoft, where he worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending time working on machine learning problems at Microsoft Research.

Fun Fact

Paul is a private pilot.

Ray Tsang

@saturnism, +RayTsang, about.me

Ray had extensive hands-on cross-industry enterprise systems integration delivery and management experiences during his time at Accenture, managed full stack application development, DevOps, and ITOps. Ray specialized in middleware, big data, and PaaS products during his time at Red Hat while contributing to open source projects, such as Infinispan. Aside from technology, Ray enjoys traveling and adventures.

Fun Fact

Ray has been posting at least one picture a day on Flickr since 2010.

Sara Robinson

@srobtweets

Sara joins Google from the Firebase family. She previously worked as an analyst at Sandbox Industries, a venture firm and startup foundry. She's passionate about learning to code, running, and finding the best ice cream in town.

Fun Fact

Sara wrote her senior thesis on Harry Potter, and enjoys finding ways to relate Harry Potter to almost anything.

Terrence Ryan

@tpryan, +TerrenceRyan

Terrence (Terry) Ryan is a Developer Advocate for the Cloud Platform team. He has a passion for web standards and 15 years of experience working with both front- and back-end applications for both industry and academia.

Fun Fact

Before doubling down on technology in the early aughts, Terry was a semi-professional improv comic.

RealMassive transforms commercial real estate with powerful data technology built on Google Cloud Platform

Monday, December 15, 2014

RealMassivehere-Posted by Chris Palmisano, Senior Key Account Manager

Data scientists harness Google Cloud Platform to make social impacts at 24-hour Bayes Impact hackathon

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Bayes ImpactGoogle Compute EngineBigQueryteam’s workPosted by Preston Holmes, Google Cloud Platform Solutions Architect*U.S. Department of State, The Facts About Child Sex Tourism: 2005.

MITx’s edX course uses Akselos for complex engineering simulations on Compute Engine

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Today’s post is about Cloud Platform customer Akselos, a platform that enables engineers to design and assess critical infrastructure - such as bridges, buildings and aircraft - via advanced simulation software.

AkselosGoogle Compute Enginehigh-end simulation technologyGoogle Cloud Platform

structural analysis coursecommunity

Expanded Windows Support on Google Cloud Platform

Monday, December 8, 2014

herehereLocal SSDconnect your datacenterappFusion Labs

dotCloud provides faster, more reliable PaaS with Google Cloud Platform

Friday, December 5, 2014

Today’s guest blog comes from Philipp Strube, founder and CEO at cloudControl, a Berlin-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider. CloudControl provides the dotCloud Platform, which simplifies the deployment, management and scaling of web apps for developers. Launching today, the new version of dotCloud will run on Google Compute Engine, giving their customers a number of performance benefits as well as cost savings in the range of 50-80 percent.dotCloudadd-on servicesGoogle Cloud SQLGoogle Cloud Storagetry out the next dotCloud

Aerospike Hits One Million Writes Per Second with just 50 Nodes on Google Compute Engine

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Today’s guest blogger is Sunil Sayyaparaju, Director of Product & Technology at Aerospike, the open source, flash-optimized, in-memory NoSQL database.Aerospike 1 Million Writes Per Second with Cassandra on Google Compute Enginesteps

High Throughput for both Reads and Writes

1 Million Writes per Second with just 50 Aerospike servers

1 Million Reads per Second with just 10 Aerospike servers

Consistent low latency, no jitter for both Reads and Writes

7ms median latency for Writes with 83% of writes < 16ms and 96% < 32

1ms median latency for Reads with 80% of reads < 4ms and 96.5% < 16ms

Note that latencies are measured on the server (latencies on the client will be higher)

Unmatched Price / Performance for both Reads and Writes

1 Million Writes Per Second for just $41.20/hour

1 Million Reads Per Second for just $11.44/hour

High Throughput at different Read / Write ratios (10 server nodes, 20 client nodes)

For all read/write ratios, 80% of TPS in this graph is achieved with 50% of the clients (10), adding more clients only marginally improves throughput.depend on sizeConsistent Low Latency for different Read / Write ratios (10 server nodes, 20 client nodes)

Linear Scalability for both Reads and Writes

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Reach High Availability with a Multiple Cloud Deployment

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

This article is written by guest author Eugene Olshenbaum. Eugene is the Head of Media Platform at Wix, a cloud-based web development platform that makes it easy for everyone to create beautiful websites.Dimensional Researchrecent blog postWix.com

Achieve at least Five 9s uptime

Stay on top of the competition

Eliminate the risks associated with the business continuity of the infrastructure provider, as well as risks related to electricity suppliers, networking providers, and other "data center" issues (since each cloud provider will usually operate separately).

Wix Media Platform High-Level Architectureactive/active

Google Cloud Platform (primary)

Amazon Web Services

Wix-managed data centers

The Challengeprevious blog postConclusion

Google Cloud Platform now PCI Data Security Standard Certified

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

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Google Cloud Platform Blog

2014 Year in Review: Making open source #1 through Kubernetes and Google Container Engine

2014 Year in Review: Awards Season

2014 Year in Review: Redefining Compute in the Cloud

2014 Year in Review: Meeting face-to-face in Europe

2014 Year in Review: A growing partner ecosystem

2014 Year in Review: Launch of Zones in Asia Pacific

2014 Year in Review: To our customers, “Happy coding to all, and to all a good night!”

2014 Year in Review: Ending Server Side Bottlenecks with Google Cloud Trace

2014 Year in Review: Working to bring you the best in visual effects

2014 Year in Review: Reaction to our second Google Cloud Platform Live

2014 Year in Review: Evolved troubleshooting with Cloud Logging

Geofencing 340 million NYC taxi locations with Google Cloud Dataflow

Google Announces Open-Source Cloud Dataflow SDK for Java

Hello World: We are the Cloud Developer Advocate Team

RealMassive transforms commercial real estate with powerful data technology built on Google Cloud Platform

Data scientists harness Google Cloud Platform to make social impacts at 24-hour Bayes Impact hackathon

MITx’s edX course uses Akselos for complex engineering simulations on Compute Engine

Expanded Windows Support on Google Cloud Platform

dotCloud provides faster, more reliable PaaS with Google Cloud Platform

Aerospike Hits One Million Writes Per Second with just 50 Nodes on Google Compute Engine

Reach High Availability with a Multiple Cloud Deployment

Google Cloud Platform now PCI Data Security Standard Certified

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