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[I am a Cloud SQL-er] Yes, you can use both standard and SSD persistent disks. If you create a larger instance with more vCPUs and a big enough disk, you can achieve greater than 2…

[I am a Cloud SQL-er, and worked on region expansion... among other things] Cloud SQL has only been available in regions with at least three zones (since we believe that is the min…

[Cloud SQL person, SSL+connections is my jam] When you say you couldn't get the root certs to work... what do you mean? Cloud SQL automatically generates server certificates, and w…

[I am a Googler and my team works on part of this] You can connect to postgres from app engine standard... as long as its Java. See this doc https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs…

Was this for a software engineering role? I've never been asked this, and I'm pretty sure during interview training you are explicitly told not to ask those sorts of questions.

We run twemproxy over about a terabyte of data in Redis, and haven't had any problems...

These seem pretty cool, do you know if there is any English documentation for them?

People have a vested interest in thinking their success is the product of their own hard work...

When I interviewed at Google 5 years ago they weren't using those brainteasers. There are many posts online about the actual, CS-y questions that you can expect in a Google intervi…

If that is the case, then why do Asians underperformed compared to Whites? If affirmative action is meant to help underrepresented groups, shouldn't the overrepresented group be th…

I think making Now API-interactable would just beg for spammy popups. Mobile is already a maelstrom of apps trying to promote themselves, or getting paid to promote others.

Moai? http://getmoai.com/

Well, on iOS since the only real way to execute code is from their app store, its much harder to attack the client code. Android can not do so, so there needs to be defense in dept…

It used to be an optional upgrade.

I upgraded the resolution on my X61t to 1400x1050 on a 12" display. "Retina display"? Hah.

On the bright side, its a bit easier on the device itself, as the package manager needs to copy the APK from the download location when installing, so by storing application resour…

Perhaps not all countries have equivalent suicide hotlines, and thus they would not get such a notice? Its really interesting how I feel really good about this use of data, but fee…

Sidenote: Google Code doesn't seem to have ads.

One of the Chrome devs posted an IRC transcript of when an Iron dev dropped by... http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht... ...and it was less than flattering…

Can I get a link to the decorator explanation? A quick browse through his history didn't reveal much.

I recall people panning the purchase of grandcentral because of the incredibly long delay between purchase and launch of Google Voice... It is hard to tell what purpose a company i…

I do (but I'm not sure I can talk numbers.) Honestly: I like that it means I don't have to muck around with configurations, the fact that downtime is out of my control is frustrati…

Or annotations. Or the playback controls...