Google Cloud Load balancer & Autoscaling in ACTION!! (Udemy link below with discount code!)

https://www.udemy.com/google-cloud-for-techs/?couponCode=LEARNGOOGLE

Happy cloud computing!…

Google BigQuery introduction by Jordan Tigani

BigQuery engineer Jordan Tigani gives a detailed introduction to Google BigQuery.

Music recommendation demo from Alexandre Passant:
http://apassant.net/2014/07/11/music-recommendations-300m-data-points-sql/

Recorded on March 11th, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden.…

Google Cloud Endpoints: serving your API to the world (Google Cloud Next ’17)

Learn about Google Cloud Endpoints and how it can make your application available to anyone in the world, all while keeping your servers protected, your data secure, and your clients happy.

Missed the conference? Watch all the talks here: https://goo.gl/c1Vs3h
Watch more talks about Connected Business Platform here: https://goo.gl/CtHNJm…

Migrating Apps to Cloud: Systematic or Random (Cloud Next ’18)

The cloud has emerged as the next platform for innovation and speed, given the advances in cloud technology and maturity of cloud offerings in the marketplace. The successful examples and stories of organizations taking their workloads to the cloud has resulted in many organizations adopting a me-too approach. However, in their rush to move applications to the cloud, many organizations adopted a random approach to migrate apps, while cutting corners along the way for the sake of advancing to the next stage.…

DDoS Defense and Application Protection with Cloud Armor, GCP Security, and ML (Cloud Next ’18)

Your Internet-facing services are exposed to a variety of threats from volumetric and protocol DDoS to sophisticated application attacks. In this session, you’ll learn how to customize defense for your Google Cloud services based on your unique requirements. Dive deep into DDoS defense with Google’s edge infrastructure, Cloud Load Balancing, and Cloud Armor. Get a close look at Cloud Armor, a new GCP service which provides IP Blacklists/Whitelists, geo-based access control, rich Layer 3-Layer 7 rules language for custom rules, XSS and SQLi defense and telemetry.…

A Year in GCP Networking (Cloud Next ’18)

In this session, we will talk about the valuable advancements that have been made in GCP Networking over the last year. We will introduce you to the GCP Network team and will tell you about what you can do to extract the most value from your GCP Deployment.

Event schedule → http://g.co/next18

Watch more Infrastructure & Operations sessions here → http://bit.ly/2uEykpQ
Next ‘18 All Sessions playlist → http://bit.ly/Allsessions

Subscribe to the Google Cloud channel! → http://bit.ly/NextSub…

Visualization with GPUs on Google Compute Engine (Cloud Next ’18)

GPUs on Google Compute Engine allow you to run remote workstations on demand. With NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, you can spin up a workstation in any region you need with the same pricing model as GCE and the latest generation of GPUs.

Event schedule → http://g.co/next18

Watch more Infrastructure & Operations sessions here → http://bit.ly/2uEykpQ
Next ‘18 All Sessions playlist → http://bit.ly/Allsessions

Subscribe to the Google Cloud channel! → http://bit.ly/NextSub…

Best Practices for Storage Classes, Reliability, Performance and Scalability (Cloud Next ’18)

So you have data and you serve applications, systems or people who access it. Depending on what kind of data you have and what kind of workload you’re supporting, the storage you choose is important.

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Event schedule → http://g.co/next18

Watch more Infrastructure & Operations sessions here → http://bit.ly/2uEykpQ
Next ‘18 All Sessions playlist → http://bit.ly/Allsessions

Subscribe to the Google Cloud channel! → http://bit.ly/NextSub…

Managing Costs in GCP: How to Structure Your Resources (Cloud Next ’18)

How much do all of my frontend servers cost? How many resources are used in my staging environment? How do I understand and optimize my spending across departments? GCP tools such as organizations, folders, projects, and labels help you create logical groupings of resources that support your management and cost attribution requirements at scale. In this session, we will show you how to use these tools to take control of your costs, whether you’re a solo developer or a multinational corporation.…

The Power of Process & Partnership: Leverage Tools to Increase Efficiency (Cloud Next ’18)

This session will focus on foundational approaches for successful Google Cloud migration, emphasizing two key components that have broader applications. First, understanding the five Ws (who, what, where, when, and why) through a logical lens by leveraging decision matrices, which are used by Etsy to make key determinations around which services to choose and how to use them throughout migration.

Secondly, understanding and leveraging partnerships to maximize success, beginning by banning the word “vendor.” Fostering fast-paced, high-quality migration starts by viewing GCP as a close partner in a long-term relationship.…

Hybrid Lift-and-Shift/Optimize Real World Stories (Cloud Next ’18)

In this panel discussion, we will discuss how several GCP customers who made the move from private to public cloud and hear lessons they learned along the way.

Event schedule → http://g.co/next18

Watch more Infrastructure & Operations sessions here → http://bit.ly/2uEykpQ
Next ‘18 All Sessions playlist → http://bit.ly/Allsessions

Subscribe to the Google Cloud channel! → http://bit.ly/NextSub…

Get the best HPC Performance via Intel Xeon Skylake on Google Cloud (Cloud Next ’18)

HPC Cloud services built on the latest Intel architecture, Skylake Xeon processor, are now powering Google compute engine and can serve as your next-generation HPC platform. Hear how customers are starting to consider hybrid strategies to increase productivity and lower their capital expenditure and maintenance costs. Learn how to adapt this model to meet the increasing HPC and data analytics needs for your applications. Find out how high performance computing via multiple PAAS providers using Intel’s latest technology seamlessly brings these advantages to HPC management and users.…

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10 differences between AWS and Google Cloud

10 differences between AWS and Google Cloud

(This webinar was recorded four years ago, so some of the points are  outdated.  I am working on the latest version of this webinar and will update the blog accordingly- Zareef Ahmed)

AWS is market leader in open cloud space but other players are making inroads into its market share. Google cloud is one of them. In this talk, we are going to cover 10 differences between Google Cloud and AWS. Major focus is on the features which covers common use cases.…

Cloud Security : One mistake that can close down your cloud operations in few minutes

Cloud Security : One mistake that can close down your cloud operations in few minutes

Few days back, I was in a discussion with a senior person. Our discussion was centred around cloud and security. We talked about lots of common and obvious processes and measures we can take for security of our applications on different platforms including but not limited to Amazon EC2, Azure and Google Cloud.

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After discussion, I thought that I should write about most important thing in cloud security, which if not considered in your security plan, can be the reason of closure of your company in few minutes if not seconds.…

Google confirms payment gateway plan

Google confirms payment gateway plan

After initital ‘No Comment’ Mode, Google’s chief executive confirmed that the firm is looking at online payments.

Hope things will improve after Google Wallet launch.

According to google chief google is not going to create a person-to-person stored-value payments system – which is PayPal’s model.

Acconding to Google e-commerce can be improved and they are working on ways to improve the user experience.

With
credit
becoming a rising form of payment, credit card services
is what your company needs to stay ahead!…