Published in Google Cloud - Community·Aug 10, 2022To containerize or not — that is the questionGoogle Cloud brings you a free tool to determine how ‘fit’ your application is, to move to containers. — Microservices are smaller & simpler services leading to faster innovation, better products. And a lot other cool things! Despite knowing the benefits, sometimes it can be difficult to decide if you are ready to containerize your applications. And if yes, how do you go about it? Will you need to write…Google3 min readGoogle3 min read
Published in Plain Simple Software·May 8, 2022A year (and some more time) at GoogleArpana put togethers her favourite moments at work from the past year as a customer engineer fresh out of college. — 6 months ago, I wrote my first technical blog post. It is something I wanted to do for a long, long time but always lacked the confidence but.. now, here you are, on my blog, reading something written (and published online!) by yours truly. Writing online can sometimes seem like…Google9 min readGoogle9 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Nov 9, 2021Serverless on GCP with Cloud RunA platform built on top of Knative, ideal for both serving and eventing architectures — Serverless has been in discussion for quite some time now, and it is here to stay. Moving infra management away from developers translates to their time and efforts aligned towards building and improving the product, and a faster time to delivery to market. Cloud Run lets you run containerised applications…Serverless6 min readServerless6 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Sep 19, 2021AutoML NLP: Convert PDFs to JSONLs!Learn to use the script provided by AutoML docs to convert your textual files to jsonl format. — If you started with anything related to AutoML NLP on GCP, you already know the first step. Convert your documents to .jsonl format before passing them as the training data. …Google Cloud Platform3 min readGoogle Cloud Platform3 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Aug 9, 2021Getting started with Google Cloud Monitoring APIs — Part 3Iterators simplify the process of paging through API responses. Learn to use page iterators to get all data points from the `list_time_series` call. — Enterprises running on GCP often have multiple instances of a resource in different regions/zones for HA (High Availability) i.e. for providing a consistent level of uptime for prolonged periods. A GCP customer I worked with, had 9 routers set up in their cloud environment. These routers generated a data point…Python4 min readPython4 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Jul 26, 2021Getting started with Google Cloud Monitoring APIs — Part 2So you have a project on GCP. You have set up your monitoring dashboards in the console, all the graphs are making sense and through just one single UI, you are able to keep a check on your whole GCP environment. Hi, you monitoring expert! …Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Jun 11, 2021Getting started with Google Cloud Monitoring APIs— Part 1If you have your application deployed, you particularly want to focus on pushing features as soon as possible and not spend time checking if your services are down, right? This is where monitoring comes into picture. Google cloud operations suite, earlier known as Stackdriver provides a built-in monitoring dashboard for…Google Cloud Platform4 min readGoogle Cloud Platform4 min read
