Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

I attended the Google Cloud OnBoard event in Hyderabad where the very accomplished  Google Cloud Trainer, Jasen Baker  was the tour guide to Google Cloud Platform services. Jasen's talk was peppered with funny & interesting tidbits and anecdotes - * Google data centers are warmer than regular data centers * Google cloud hypervisors run on RedHat KVM * Much like the article Azure and AWS services compared , GCP has an article on Google Cloud Platform for AWS Professionals . The  Map Microsoft Azure services to Google Cloud Platform products &  Map AWS services to Google Cloud Platform products articles are useful to know about equivalent services in AWS & Azure * Google has a customer that uses over a exabyte (1000 petabytes) of data * The Site Reliability Engineering book can be read online for free * 8 Google products have more than 1 billion users * China needs access to physical hardware (so data centers have to cater to special regul...

This Week I Learned - * With the availability of Geographic Routing capability in Azure Traffic Manager, you can now direct user traffic to specific endpoints based on the geographic location from where the requests originate. As an example, an e-commerce site can localize the site content and merchandise items to users in a specific region. Knowing where the users are coming from makes it easier to implement mandates related to data sovereignty - Azure Blog *  Kubernetes Pod is a group of one or more containers that are always co-located, co-scheduled, and run in a shared context *  Gartner's Hype Cycle, attempts to capture the perceptions and reality of a given technology. Technologies typically undergo a period of inflated expectations, only to be followed by a downward slope into the trough of disillusionment, whereby the promises of the technology fall short of reality. At some point, a realistic perception of the technology gains momentum and technologists become...

This Week I Learned - * L-Series virtual machines are optimized for storage-intensive workloads.  S series VMs (S192m offers 4.0 TB RAM & 16 TB storage) are optimized for SAP HANA *  Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native platform based on open source technology, for building and deploying applications . Pivotal Cloud Foundry can be run on Google Cloud Platform *  Google follows the API Design Guide when designing Cloud APIs and other Google APIs. This guide is a living document. *  Ionic & PhoneGap are cross-platform mobile frameworks built on top of Cordova * Xamarin comes from Microsoft and takes a unique approach to cross-platform app development. Xamarin applications are written entirely in C#. Xamarin then compiles the C# code into native iOS and Android distributions. The underlying layer on which Xamarin is built on top of is Mono and this enables cross-platform development. The benefit of building applications with Xam...