Richard Seroter
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Sharing tech ideas from people smarter than me. Chief Evangelist @googlecloud , @pluralsight trainer, writer, speaker.
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A couple years back, O'Reilly published the book "Software Engineering at Google." It's good, I read it.
Now, you can read it online, entirely free. Do yourself a favor, and at least flip through it!
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Here's a peek at the specific tech that powers Pokémon GO. It includes 5000
@googlecloud
Spanner nodes, 5-10TB of daily data in BigQuery and BigTable, GKE, Pub/Sub, and more.
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We often hear that people leave managers, not jobs. But how many people *take* jobs because of the chance to work with someone? I've known a few folks who have followed leaders elsewhere. I like seeing that.
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While I'm not sure arranging your Kanban board by "stages of grief" is good for morale, I still love this:
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There have been some terrific new tech books on the market recently, and this "Patterns of Distributed Systems" one from
@unmeshjoshi
looks like another one.
Review the patterns here:
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At this point, saying "don't do multi-cloud" and "don't use Kubernetes" is like only teaching abstinence in sex-ed class. A few may listen, you might be right, but it doesn't matter because it's not reality.
Everyone's doing multi-cloud and k8s. Help people do it safely.
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I don't think about which data center I'm using when I upload a pic to Google Photos. Or when I perform a search. Or use Gmail.
Why should the public cloud be so different? Here's a 🧵with 10
@googlecloud
services that are unique because of their global backplane …
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Google Photos has more than 1 billion users and 4 trillion (trillion!) photos. What possible database can support such absurd usage?
@googlecloud
Spanner.
Here's a deeper look at what they needed, and how they use it.
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When the most influential tech company in the world standardizes on something, you take notice.
@NetflixOSS
is all in on
@springboot
because it meets their reliability, scalability, and security requirements while aligning with their company direction.
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Spanner powers Google services like Gmail and YouTube. It's a remarkable database.
This deep-dive post looks at two core concepts that are fundamental to how
@googlecloud
Spanner works: Strict Serializability and External Consistency.
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PayPal uses a LOT of
@apachekafka
. 85 clusters, 1.5k brokers, 20k topics, and 99.99% availability, even when peaking at 1.3 trillion messages per day.
Here's how they're scaling and operating Kafka ...
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We're not a cloud provider that wants to create every possible service you can imagine. We'd rather build some exceptional services, and partner with others to offer their best-of-breed options.
Here's a look at our focused set of database options:
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Job update!
In addition to leading an outbound product mgmt team, I also now have the pleasure of leading Developer Relations at
@googlecloud
.
It's a treat to work with such a fantastic set of advocates, engineers, and platform builders.
Let's have some fun. Advice welcome!
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Chapter two of the serverless era begins today.
#knative
is the Google-led OSS project that turns
@kubernetesio
into a functions runtime.
@pivotal
is a close collaborator and merged
@projectriff
components. We're all in.
#GoogleNext18
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Async, event-driven systems are awesome, but tracing requests through such an architecture? No joke.
The Slack engineering team explains how they trace notifications through their distributed systems.
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So a bit of a professional update.
I wish my
@pivotal
and
@VMware
colleagues the best as they move forward. They'll need it, as you're stuck with me for a while.
I've accepted an offer to stay aboard. Can't wait to learn from
@PGelsinger
,
@ray_ofarrell
,
@pfazzone
and team!
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You know, without fail, each time I've published a book, something inside became out of date within the first month. This time? My job title!
Just bumped up to VP of Product Marketing at
@pivotal
. We've got the hardest working group of VPs I've ever seen, so I gotta up my game!
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Sigh, I've missed this. The best part of
#GoogleCloudNext
has been the chance to meet up with so many excellent folks, face to face.
Hanging with customers and partners is sweet, but I've *most* enjoyed meeting Googlers (like
@stephr_wong
) in-person for the first time.
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Netflix has nearly 3,000 Java apps and another 1500 internal Java libraries. And their big users of
@springboot
.
This presentation/transcript looks at Java at Netflix and their future plans.
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If you're writing
@golang
AND using serverless functions, it sounds like life is going great for you.
We just GA-ed support for Go 1.18/1.19, in
@googlecloud
Functions, so your day just got better.
2 million free calls every month, so give it a whirl ().
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Yes, there are lots of services in each public cloud. But you're not expected to use them all! I sure don't.
Focus your attention on what your app architecture needs, and read/watch this content from
@pvergadia
to make your journey easier:
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You're looking for more than "hello world" examples of a modern services (serverless) architecture. Me too.
We recently shipped Emblem, a sample 2-tier web app that uses
@googlecloud
Cloud Run, Secret Manager, Pub/Sub, and more. Install and explore!
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Lunch with
@QuinnyPig
is always a treat. Especially in one of the on-campus sit-down restaurants.
#GoogleCloudNext
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Virtually every software system has a workflow engine. The only question is whether you build your own, or drop one in. Today,
@GCPcloud
shipped Cloud Workflows.
Declarative definitions, a rich syntax, and no operational effort? Let's take a look in this 🧵thread 🧵
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The
@googlecloud
network is pretty amazing. Here's a terrific summary by
@pvergadia
of the network itself and the many services we offer customers ...
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Our new managed continuous service delivery,
@googlecloud
Deploy, just became generally available.
I'm supposed to be working on something else, but I want to check it out. Let's procrastinate on real-work together, shall we?
Quick 🧵 as I deploy a
#dotnet
app to GKE.
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Cloud platforms generally have outstanding uptime, but things do still go wrong.
This is a terrific new
@googlecloud
guide about architecting disaster recovery for infrastructure outages. It's a great asset for responsible planning.
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Oh, look at that.The PostgreSQL interface for
@googlecloud
Spanner is in public preview, and folks can take it for a spin. Use a familiar dialect for the best database in the cloud.
Docs:
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Hi, son. You arrived earlier than we thought, but I'm sure glad to see you.
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Come on, this is silly great. You can now open up the
@googlecloud
Shell from *WITHIN THE DOCs*.
Get an inline, tools-loaded shell (and editor) when you're browsing the docs, and try out anything you want in the sandbox or against your real account.
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#GoogleAlloyDB
. Let’s talk about why it’s a BIG deal for developers and DBAs, and why it might be the best way to do PostgreSQL in the cloud.
And how about a quick look at what the provisioning experience looks like? Quick 🧵 with a bunch of links at the end …
#GoogleIO
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Multi-Region Applications with Google Cloud Run & CockroachDB < good walkthrough from the
@CockroachDB
gang. You could put Cloud Run instances in all 33
@googlecloud
regions (and only pay when a request comes in!) and use a multi-region DB underneath.
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How should you back up a Kubernetes cluster? You know, all that cluster and application state? You *could* use a pile of scripts for each component. Not great.
Today, we're previewing Backup for GKE on
@googlecloud
. It's sophisticated, yet easy to use.
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"The best speakers make presentations look effortless precisely because they put so much effort into perfecting their delivery."
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This is some solid swag!
@kelseyhightower
visited Australia a couple weeks before me, and the local team made "build your own Kelsey" paper dolls. I will never be cool enough to warrant this.
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Need a cheat sheet for deconstructing a monolith? Here's what we do at
@pivotal
to help enterprises take back control of their systems.
#springone
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TIL that I never need to hand-craft a Kubernetes YAML file again. Thanks
@vicnastea
!
Didn't realize
@GoogleCloudTech
Code has built-in snippets for creating common resources (pod, service, configmap, etc). Plus diffing and dry-run of YAML.
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I saw that a cloud database served up over 100m requests per second during a recent "prime" event. Amazing!
Then I read this post about
@googlecloud
Bigtable handling 6 *billion* req/sec at peak, and am blow away. Good for YouTube, and your use case too.
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You know how even the most obscure YouTube video plays in seconds? That's because our storage system is amazing.
You can tap into that yourself with
@googlecloud
Storage. Encrypted at rest by default, regionally redundant, fast retrieval of cold storage.
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I’ve got a complete, remastered
@cloudfoundry
on a single-node minikube cluster.
In a k8s-native setting? This no-VM edition combines CNCF tech like Kubernetes,
@IstioMesh
,
@EnvoyProxy
,
@buildpacks_io
and
@fluentd
.
Turn any k8s into an app platform in 10 minutes. Beta in days!
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This morning I wrote up a blog post showing off the new
@Azure
Spring Cloud.
This first-party managed service uses Cloud Native Buildpacks to build containers, and offers a managed service registry and config store.
#springone
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Just got the email that I was granted the Microsoft MVP Award for the 12th straight time.
I seem to be a non-traditional MVP (my job, and my tendency to play with non-Microsoft stuff), which makes me all the more appreciative of the award.
Great start to the day.
#MVPBuzz
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Psst. You. Yes, you. We just quietly opened up a repo for a new project that lets you easily run
@cloudfoundry
on your desktop. WITH a fully-functional BOSH Director included. It's early days, but pretty neat tech ...
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Each day, you folks follow 360 million Bitly links, and create another 6-7 million more.
Their core self-managed backend MySQL database held 40 billion active links.
To scale, they switched to
@googlecloud
Bigtable. Here's why, and how:
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Great Google earnings report. Happy to see
@googlecloud
growing 47% and investing big time in the business.
Yes, we lost $5B, but to be fair, most of that was my signing bonus. Should be off the books in 2021.
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Distributed transactions are often a no-no for your distributed systems. So many things can go wrong. Here,
@unmeshjoshi
does a giant dive into two-phase commit and how it works.
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Wow.
@springboot
usage isn't slowly increasing. It's exploding. Over the past 30 days, 38.5% more projects created at than the MONTH (not year!) before. Well over 850,000 projects now. Neato.
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How well are public clouds keeping their "cloud shell" language tools up to date? Just checked ...
-.NET-
GCP: 6.0.21
AWS: n/a
Azure: 3.1.403
-Java-
GCP: 11.0.14
AWS: n/a
Azure: 11.0.9
-Go-
GCP: 1.17.2
AWS: n/a
Azure: 1.13.7
-Python-
GCP: 3.9.2
AWS: 2.7.18
Azure: 3.7.3
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