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Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

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Re: Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

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Post by pdeva1 »

slightly off topic, but since the post mentions StackDriver Monitoring in the ‘Ugly’ section. Just wanted to point that you can get 100% free high quality Infrastructure monitoring from DripStat and use it on all your gcloud vms, thus avoiding that issue completely. https://www.dripstat.com/products/infra/

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Post by pbrumm »

well written.

Things I would add to the Good side.

- ability to commit to multi year cpu/ram without upfront costs

- they can live migrate your vm to new physical hardware, so no need to have random reboots of your instances

- https load balancers allow traffic around the world to enter google network closest to user, this reduces handshakes and reduces comcast like outages to affect users.

the above greatly decrease my stress.

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Post by karmaseed »

We’re currently having this problem where firebase suddenly stops working with the main wired internet network. I switch to another internet provider (mobile wireless) and firebase starts working immediately. This may be something to do with router settings but has everyone in office confused like hell.

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Post by ebikelaw »

jrockway wrote: post #5

> Sometimes when browsing documentation for a service or API you will find that the old way is deprecated, but the new way that they recommend you use is still in beta or alpha (!). Familiar.

Also familiar: monitoring frontend is tragic-comic with no units and inscrutable data. It’s cute that the author thinks the internal version must be a lot better!

On the other hand, the article doesn’t mention Stackdriver Profiler, which has an amazing UX. Definitely recommended if you are spending significant money on CPU at GCE.

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Post by ebikelaw »

pbrumm wrote: post #7

well written. Things I would add to the Good side. - ability to commit to multi year cpu/ram without upfront costs - they can live migrate your vm to new physical hardware, so no need to have random reboots of your instances - https load balancers allow traffic around the world to enter google network closest to user, this reduces handshakes and reduces comcast like outages to affect users. the above greatly decrease…

I guess that closeness to user got eliminated from the “good” list since Google’s FELB is serving 502 to this author’s customers.
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