Introducing Kubernetes control plane metrics in GKE
An essential aspect of operating any application is the ability to observe the health and performance of that application and of the underlying infrastructure to quickly resolve issues as they arise. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) already provides audit logs, operational logs, and metrics along with out-of-the-box dashboards and automatic error reporting to facilitate running reliable…
Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 6 tips to optimize data management and analytics
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series Google are running to answer common questions their tech and startup customers ask them about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, Google explores how to get started…
Twitter: Helping customers find meaningful Spaces with AutoML
Editor’s note: Since launching its Spaces feature, Twitter has demonstrated that hearing people’s voices can bring conversations on Twitter to life in a completely new way. Next, it aimed to make it easier for customers to join and listen to live conversations they personally care…
How Google scales ad personalization with Bigtable
Cloud Bigtable is a popular and widely used key-value database available on Google Cloud. The service provides scale elasticity, cost efficiency, excellent performance characteristics, and 99.999% availability SLA. This has led to massive adoption with thousands of customers trusting Bigtable to run a variety of their…
Implementing observability for always-on Ecommerce experience
In today’s Digital age, the emphasis continues to be on automation and improving business processes, employee productivity and customer experiences to meet the ever changing business and consumer expectations. According to Gartner, organizations will require more IT and business process automation as they are forced to accelerate digital…
How to run SAP on Google Cloud when high availability is high priority
Over the past couple of years, businesses across every industry have faced unexpected challenges in keeping their enterprise IT systems safe, secure, and available to users. Many have experienced sudden spikes or drops in demand for their products and services and most are now operating…
Using Pacemaker for SAP high availability on Google Cloud – Part 1
Problem Statement Maintaining business continuity of your mission critical systems usually demands high availability (HA) solutions that will failover without human intervention. If you are running SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver (SAP NW) on Google Cloud, the OS-native high availability (HA) cluster capability provided by…
SAP backup, the blended way
An SAP architect designing a backup solution is faced with questions towards the business (what needs to be done) and delivery (how it can be accomplished). This blog gives an overview of the challenges, available options, the advantages and disadvantages. As a conclusion, a blended…
How Google Cloud and SAP solve big problems for big companies
With SAP Sapphire kicking off this year in Orlando, Google are looking forward to seeing the customers and discussing how they can make core processes more efficient and improve how they serve their customers. One thing is certain to be top of mind – the…
How to get the most from your Intel-based instances on Google Cloud
Deploying mission-critical applications on Google Cloud can yield immediate benefits in terms of performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). That’s why Google Cloud is partnering with Intel to help our mutual customers optimize their most demanding workloads on Intel-based instances. The Intel Software Center…
Analyze Pacemaker events using open source Log Parser
This blog is the fourth in a series and it follows the blog Analyze Pacemaker events in Cloud Logging, which describes how you can install and configure Google Cloud Ops Agent to stream Pacemaker logs of all your high availability clusters to Cloud Logging. You can…
Filestore Enterprise for fully managed, fault tolerant persistent storage on GKE
Storing state with containers Kubernetes has become the preferred choice for running not only stateless workloads (e.g., web services) but also for stateful applications (e.g., e-commerce applications). According to the Data on Kubernetes report, over 70% of Kubernetes users run stateful applications in containers. Additionally, there…