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Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP

The Pragmatic Engineer

It’s rare that all three major cloud providers suffer regional outages, but that’s exactly what happened between April and July: 25 April 2023: GCP. A Google Cloud region (europe-west-9) went offline for about a day, and a zone was offline for two weeks (europe-west-9-a.) ( incident details ).

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Google Domains to shut down

The Pragmatic Engineer

Google published a help center article making this very clear: “On June 15, 2023, Google entered into a definitive agreement with Squarespace, where they intend to purchase all domain registrations and related customer accounts from Google Domains.” The impact on Google Cloud.

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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling

The Pragmatic Engineer

Originally published 6 July 2023 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. The company utilizes Google Cloud to some extent, and my understanding from talking with Twitter engineers is that this was for machine learning (ML) use cases. How does Twitter do this detection?

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

The past three months, I shared insights with full subscribers: Cloud development environments at tech companies (27 Jun 2023) Why are CDEs spiking in popularity, now? (5   For example, Uber runs its Devpods out of 5 data centers this way, presumably operated by a provider like Google Cloud.

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Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved

The Pragmatic Engineer

Originally published on 11 May 2023. We had a large upfront bill for a client in Q1 2022 that did not recur at the same level or timing in Q1 2023. Prometheus can be self-hosted, but several cloud providers also offer managed Prometheus services: both Google Cloud and AWS have this service in production, while Azure has it in preview.

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Using Trino And Iceberg As The Foundation Of Your Data Lakehouse

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From March 28-30th 2023, we'll play host to hundreds of attendees, 100 top speakers, and dozens of startups that are advancing data science, engineering and AI. From March 28-30th 2023, we'll play host to hundreds of attendees, 100 top speakers, and dozens of startups that are advancing data science, engineering and AI.

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Top 10+ Google Cloud Platform Skills of 2023

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A successful professional in this field requires Google cloud skills, namely, expertise in development, operations, and infrastructure, enabling the engineer to streamline and expedite the deployment and administration processes for cloud-based services on GCP efficiently. Are you ready to take the google cloud skills challenge?