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DoiT International Announces over $100 Million Investment by Charlesbank
By Vadim SoloveyNov 1, 20193 min read

DoiT International Announces over $100 Million Investment by Charlesbank

BOSTON, Nov. 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DoiT International (“DoiT” or the “Company”), a leading provider of proprietary public cloud optimization and operations software and public cloud expertise, today announced that Charlesbank Technology Opportunities Fund, a fund managed by Charlesbank Capital Partners, along with affiliated investors, has invested over $100 million in the Company.

‘eksctl’ Stuck on Waiting for Nodes to Join the Cluster
By Vladik KhononovOct 23, 20192 min read

‘eksctl’ Stuck on Waiting for Nodes to Join the Cluster

Many of our customers who have tried to create a Kubernetes cluster encountered this error message without specific logs that may help them understand what went wrong. This is how we usually solve it.

Kubernetes GKE Workload Identity
By Ami MahloofOct 11, 20193 min read

Kubernetes GKE Workload Identity

Often you want to configure your Kubernetes services to use a specific Google service account (much like kube2iam project).

Hacking Google Cloud Run
By Aviv LauferOct 2, 20193 min read

Hacking Google Cloud Run

Opinionated take on how to use Google Cloud Run for functions that take longer than 10–15 minutes

Snitching on expensive Google BigQuery queries
By Vadim SoloveySep 24, 20192 min read

Snitching on expensive Google BigQuery queries

Get visibility into queries that might require some (cost) optimization and user training on how (not) to run queries on Google BigQuery.

Codeless ML with TensorFlow and AI Platform
By Gad BenramJul 2, 20193 min read

Codeless ML with TensorFlow and AI Platform

Advances in AI frameworks enable developers to create and deploy deep learning models with as little effort as clicking a few buttons on the screen. Using a UI or an API based on Tensorflow Estimators, models can be built and served without writing a single line of machine learning code.

Identifying orphaned firewall rules on Google Cloud
By Ami MahloofJun 25, 20193 min read

Identifying orphaned firewall rules on Google Cloud

If you have large enough deployment on Google Cloud using shared VPC, it’s often easy to lose track of firewall rules applicable to your environment. Here is how I’ve solved the orphaned firewall rules problem.

Taking Google Cloud Run for a spin
By Aviv LauferJun 16, 20193 min read

Taking Google Cloud Run for a spin

At Google Next 2019 conference in San Francisco, Google announced that Cloud Run has moved into Beta, so I’ve felt this is a good time to test it on some real-world application.

Google Kubernetes Engine Cluster Migration with Heptio Velero
By Eran ChetzroniApr 22, 20194 min read

Google Kubernetes Engine Cluster Migration with Heptio Velero

From time to time, you may need to move your entire Kubernetes workload to a new cluster. It might be for testing purposes or to upgrade a major version and sometimes as a disaster recovery.

DoiT International builds on Google Cloud MSP Initiative to help customers with managing costs and scaling cloud engineering
By Vadim SoloveyApr 9, 20192 min read

DoiT International builds on Google Cloud MSP Initiative to help customers with managing costs and scaling cloud engineering

San Francisco, CA, April 8th 2019 — DoiT International, today announced that it has deepened their standing in the Google Cloud MSP Initiative as a Premier Partner, giving Google Cloud customers the ability to better manage costs, scale engineering and increase innovation around machine learning and data analytics.

Power Grafana with Google BigQuery!
By Vadim SoloveyApr 6, 20193 min read

Power Grafana with Google BigQuery!

BigQuery is one of the most performant data cloud data warehouse for analytics. Grafana is an open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring. Wouldn't it be the only natural to combine the power of both? We thought it would!

Transforming BigQuery JSON API responses recursively
By Eben Du ToitMar 25, 20192 min read

Transforming BigQuery JSON API responses recursively

Building key-value pairs from field/value row nests La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, by Paolo Nicolello. Say it with me: “Nested JSON is hard to work with!”. Am I right? Most certainly! Now that we got that out of the way, let me just say that I believe in JSON through-and-through. It is logical, it is universal and […]