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by vgt 10y ago
Perhaps you can talk to my boss and get boulos and I paid for posting on hn! Reality is, we want to be engaged, and we are allowed. This is a luxury, not a burden in exchange for salary. We all have Very busy day jobs. And very often we lea
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by vgt 10y ago
Hey there - would love to hear your use case.
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by vgt 10y ago
It sounds like your problem is non-trivial, and is currently being diagnosed by support. Hopefully they get to the bottom of it and find the root cause very soon. Unfortunately these things can occur in the darndest of places, as a bug in G
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by vgt 10y ago
works on top of BigQuery!
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by vgt 10y ago
That's essentially what Google Cloud Dataproc gives you (managed Hadoop/Spark): - Per-minute billing - 0-to-cluster in under 90 seconds (aim for 30 seconds) - Pre-emptiblem VMs - Custom VMs Now you start with a job, pay a 30 secon
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by vgt 10y ago
To add color to both your comment and parent's. Everything at Google Cloud is encrypted at rest and in transit [0]. Any GCE project is essentially a VPC by default, and a global one at that [1] (aka no need to VPN between regions). Tra
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15 things to consider when benchmarking Google BigQuery(medium.com)
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by vgt 10y ago
Sorry to hear. We have completely revamped our ingest mechanism lately. Feel free to ping me with specific problem you had. From my experience, most issues with loading data stem from just data parsing, or trying to make batch load behave l
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by vgt 10y ago
While advantage Google has enjoyed is slimmer, I think it's a fallacy to think that technology has been commoditized. Slight oversimplification, but Google's had basically S3/GCS and Hadoop since early 2000s, and basically Do
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Analyzing every pitch and every at-bat with public datasets(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
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by vgt 10y ago
You can opt out of the service
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Helping Universities Build What's Next with Google Cloud Platform(blog.google)
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Viewing Sizing Recommendations for Instances(cloud.google.com)
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Decoding the micro moments of baseball through data(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
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by vgt 10y ago
I think we're seeing Elon Musk's strategy of hitting the market early play out here. Same thing is happening with "autopilot" - the aggressive marketing has clearly cost lives, but it helps Tesla in their future endeavor
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What Spotify Learned in Their Move from AWS S3 to Google Cloud Storage(techrepublic.com)
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15 things you probably didn't know about Google BigQuery(medium.com)
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by vgt 10y ago
One of the folks working at Google Cloud here (and was on the BigQuery team until very recently). While the blog post is a great POV from someone who's very familiar with Redshift, I'd like to offer some details around BigQuery th
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by vgt 10y ago
Judging by his username, I wouldn't bet on it:)
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Google Open Source Report Card(developers.googleblog.com)
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Comparing Amazon S3 to Google Cloud Storage(linkedin.com)
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by vgt 10y ago
Google BigQuery has a Streaming API specifically for this reason. Up to 100,000 rows per second per table, available immediately for analysis. Interestingly, with BigQuery batch or stream ingest uses different resources than query, so your
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by vgt 10y ago
Sorry to hear that. Certainly not what we strive for. May I ask you to send me your specific experience to my email? (username at google dotcom). I would be happy to share it with our support teams and get a postmortem going? (I work at Goo
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A Survival Guide for Containerizing Your Infrastructure (medium.com)
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by vgt 10y ago
Sorry to hear that. Again, are you specifically discussing Google Cloud support? It's a very different model.
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by vgt 10y ago
Perhaps the reputation you speak of transfers over from the B2C side, where Google makes services for billions and can't offer the human touch as easily. Have you had bad experiences with Google Cloud platform support specifically? I c
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by vgt 10y ago
Have you had a chance to look at Google's Preemptible VMs? They're a fixed 70-80% off of list price. Another point is, Google's VMs are generic CPU/RAM combinations. You don't need "network optimized VMs"
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by vgt 10y ago
This thread will give you an idea of how far Google's support will go to make a customer succeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12606995 (work at GCP)
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by vgt 10y ago
Ah this old thing? :) https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/ Yes, tough to cover it all. I believe Azure has a similar "Azure to AWS" comparison. The GCP one is built by folks expertly familiar wi
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Google BigQuery nabs New York Times as customer,gets major update(cloud.google.com)
4 points by vgt 10y ago|0 comments

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