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Ephi is a very simple bot for Slack that allows users to send ephemeral messages that are automatically deleted for everyone (i.e. self-destruct messages) after a set period of time. Yes, it’s like Snapchat for Slack, but without the nudity, hopefully ;-)

With the massive adoption of Kubernetes and the fact the continuous delivery has become a standard practice, the rollout of new versions is now more automated than ever. But what happens if you deploy a faulty version? How much time and effort it will take to rollback to the previous, non-faulty version?

Recently, I have completed two Google Cloud certifications, - Professional Cloud Architect and Professional Data Engineer. The team at Google Tel-Aviv were nice about it and gave me a Google Home device as a token of their appreciation (thank you Nir Atias & Ifat Yanai!)

TL;DR: Amazon SageMaker offers an unprecedented easy way of implementing machine learning pipelines, significantly shortening the time to market for data scientists and engineers.

With Google BigQuery ML you can now predict your Google Cloud spend in just a few minutes and without leaving your BigQuery Console UI.

One of the popular question I am getting often is “how do I break down my Google Cloud costs by location?”. Today, I am going to show how to make Iris and reOptimize — two open source projects by DoiT International, to collect and visualize this information for you.

Many applications need to be whitelisted by consumers based on source IP address, usually for security reasons. As of today, Google Kubernetes Engine doesn’t support assigning a static pool of addresses to GKE cluster and requires the deployment of a complex NAT based solution which is expensive, hard to maintain and requires a complex set of rules for load-balancing and redundancy.

Meet Banias — high performance analytics pipeline built on top of Kubernetes, Apache Beam and Google BigQuery

Missing the automatic AWS name tags for your Google Cloud resources? Here is Iris come to the rescue.

Like many public cloud providers, Google Cloud follows a network pricing model which doesn’t charge you for ingress traffic but will charge you for egress traffic to other zones, regions and internet.

UPDATE: User-defined request headers are not longer free;

Google Compute Engine offers a really unique technology called “Live Migration” which keeps your instances running even when a host undergo downtime such as during software or hardware update.