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by vgt 11y ago
Agree on first point. No confusion on second point. My argument was that Kafka adds significant complexity and delivery risk because it's software that you must run on hardware/VMs, rather than a fully-managed service. You have to
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by vgt 11y ago
That's a fair point. But remember, Kafka promises this as long as the underlying VM infrastructure is alive and well. PubSub completely removes this worry, or even the concept of VMs. There are several ways to look at it, but I'd
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by vgt 11y ago
Can you elaborate on that? PubSub is a fully-managed service, which means that Google SREs are on call making sure things are up. In addition, Pubsub has "guaranteed at-least-once message delivery". In a sense, Google's SREs
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by vgt 11y ago
I work on BigQuery. I am a little biased, but "canceled product" is FUD, especially for paid services at Google. Especially for BigQuery, which has no equal. Feel free to ping me if you want more info :)
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by vgt 11y ago
One unique thing about Google Cloud is that most managed services like Load Balancer, PubSub, Datastore, BigQuery etc do not charge you for variability and high-availability. AWS and Azure WILL charge you 10x to scale up and another 3x for
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AWS Uses Photos of Google's Data Centers(plus.google.com)
26 points by vgt 11y ago|3 comments
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by vgt 11y ago
One of the articles mentions that Porsche parent company has Android Auto options. The other mentions that Android Auto has opt-in just like with Android - you start out as opted out. There's also a rebuttal from Form and GM.
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by vgt 11y ago
Plot thickens: http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/06/android-auto-has-very-limit... http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/06/google-denies-motor-trends-...
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by vgt 11y ago
Highlights: - Per minute billing - Industry-leading startup times (get a cluster up in under 90 seconds) - Fully integration with BigQuery, Bigtable, Cloud Logging, etc. - Use Preemptible VMs - Use GCS as your storage engine instead of HDFS
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by vgt 11y ago
Fair point - it's a new feature that is getting eased in. As with other quotas, talk to us about your use case.
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by vgt 11y ago
Some other features rolled out: - New faster execution engine, especially for large complex queries - Dynamic partition optimization - Federated querying from Google Cloud Storage - Obsoleteness of the EACH keyword - Numerous UI improvement
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Announcing General Availability of Google Cloud Dataflow and PubSub(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
7 points by vgt 11y ago|1 comments
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Research Paper – Google Dataflow: Massive-Scale, Unbounded Data Processing [pdf](vldb.org)
11 points by vgt 11y ago|0 comments
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by vgt 11y ago
I work on BigQuery. Whoever owns Storage, NYC TLC in this case, pays a minimal fee of 2 cents per GB per month for storage. This includes multiple factors of replication/durability. Whoever is doing the querying - this can be you - pay
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by vgt 11y ago
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/google...
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by vgt 11y ago
Per my parent comment, comparing AWS networking functionality to Google's is Apples-to-Oranges.
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by vgt 11y ago
(disclosure: am work for Google). Not sure on AWS. Google's Network is a vast, secure, and performant Global SDN. This allows us to do some cool things. Therefore, Google has a fundamentally unique value proposition: - Traffic between
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by vgt 11y ago
Google also released today "Google Storage Transfer Service", which can help you reach this scale.
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Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
80 points by vgt 11y ago|57 comments
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by vgt 11y ago
Note that this is from 2012 and many things have been added/improved. Cost has also been dropped by ~80% a year ago.
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by vgt 11y ago
If you are a Google Analytics Premium customer, your raw dataset is automatically available in BigQuery, so you can see down to every click and run your own SQL on it.
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by vgt 11y ago
At Google Cloud there are two ideas: - Things like BigQuery require less support in general (managed aspect of it = economies of scale of support. Think gmail support req's versus exchange) - Higher levels of support come with dedicate
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by vgt 11y ago
Right, there are clearly levels of differences between Google-internal and external. Some more than others.
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by vgt 11y ago
Interesting is that much of this is externalized through Google Cloud in one way or another: - GFS/Colossus = GCS - Borg = Kubernetes - Dremel = BigQuery - BigTable = BigTable (naturally) - FlumeJava,MapReduce,MillWheel = Dataflow
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by vgt 11y ago
I think the point of the article is that Facebook is making MySQL work, and that's exceptional. Facebook understands that they would rather not.
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GCP vs. AWS Pricing “Google is now significantly cheaper than Amazon”(crn.com)
1 points by vgt 11y ago|0 comments
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Top 5 Reasons to Run Hadoop/Spark on Google Cloud Platform. All Unique(imgur.com)
2 points by vgt 11y ago|0 comments
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Google Cloud vs. AWS Pricing(rightscale.com)
3 points by vgt 11y ago|0 comments
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by vgt 11y ago
Google AppEngine is just one part of Google Cloud. The discussion and article at hand are specifically about Google Compute Engine.
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by vgt 11y ago
The idea with Google is that you don't need to worry about which instances you run, at which price, and in which region. For example, with Google you don't need to get a specialized instance type to use it's monster-fast Loca

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