All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta

Should be automatic. Remember your max IOPS are also limited by core count. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance#rela...

You can use the Storage Transfer Service[0] to automatically move objects past a certain age from one GCS bucket to another.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/storage/transfer/

They both perform significantly faster than RDS MySQL. That's probably the lesson here.

SQL connection pools are configurable in the application. When you care about performances, you have to do benchmarking to find the optimal number of concurrent threads for the specific load.

It's noteworthy to see that google has a consistent total of queries per seconds (the average per thread drops almost linearly when adding threads), whereas RDS Aurora is exhibiting variable throughput and flat areas.

Consistency > Raw Performances

Nope, but samhamilton has it right. Getting this in place was really the first step. While I personally like Postgres myself, it's still the case that MySQL dominates in terms of install base and dollars.

Yep - currently rolling my own on GCE but would really love them to roll out managed service to handle failover. Hopefully now that their v2 has gone GA it releases someone to work on adding new db types.

A lot of companies use SQL server. I wouldn't be surprised if it has double the installed base of PostgreSQL. Especially among the more established firms that Google seems to be targeting in their sales effort.

They dont have managed SQL Server hosting, just images ready to go so you dont have to buy and install it yourself.

SQL Server also has a massive user base, especially within the large enterprises that Google is trying to get as customers.

I think you're thinking of Cloud SQL v1. v2 is "just" a managed instance of MySQL 5.x (I think you can still lock to 5.6 if you're not ready for 5.7). The MySQL team at Google already open-sourced the semi-sync replication, etc. so it's not like it was ever "crazy" anyway.

Disclaimer: while I work on Google Cloud, I don't work on the Cloud SQL team.

Yep, trash was one of the first things I checked.

I had this same issue (a while ago). I believe the solution was to turn back on icloud photos and then your photos show up in the photos app where you can delete them, and then turn off icloud photos again (convenient)

I can't use my normal rewards card as it can't tell the difference between prepaid card and non prepaid. Seems like a hard thing to screw up considering you can google a list of prepaid bin numbers.

The old UI was way better Im afraid to say! It was very easy to view the last day's costs with it - seems to be impossible with the new UI?

I manage a few accounts for different clients of mine. Now and then (not often) I get an email about some billing service being discontinued (or perhaps a free trial of something has ended).

When this happens, I have no idea which account it refers to as the emails provide no details. I just have to cross my fingers and hope nothing goes offline.

EDIT: Here's what they look like: http://i.imgur.com/XcatLQm.png AFAIK the account id denoted there as XXX-XXXXX-XXX is some behind-the-scenes account identified that isn't displayed anywhere in the UI. To hunt it down, I would have to log into a google account, then click on the link. Then repeat over and over with a dozen google accounts until I log into the one actually tied to that billing account.

Ridiculous.

That's almost right. Most modern filesystems are okay with resizing upwards, but very unprepared for downwards (even when lots of bytes are not yet touched!). So it's really just the "restriction" from GCE that comes from "normal file systems don't like this".

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud, but I'm not a filesystem expert.

note that this is currently a very simple radius search for points. So it cannot do point in polygon, intersections, allow shapes for data points etc

I've setup a Stackdriver account today. My colleagues [Editors on the monitored project], when navigating to [0], were prompted to create a new Stackdriver account. They could not see the one I just created, nor were they presented with the GCP project we are using. There was no obvious way to invite them to join the project, more generally there was no obvious way to manage user accounts, though I could see and edit my Profile, which does show [readonly] that I'm an "Admin", though I don't know how to make other people "Admin", or what other roles are available. It was not obvious to check which project "hosts" the Stackdriver account. There was no obvious link to a forum or chat to discuss the issue, only a "Send Feedback" link who-knows-when somebody will look at.

We eventually solved the issue by passing around [1], which is not obviously displayed anywhere. I scrapped it by right clicking and <Copy Link Address> somewhere in the UI [I forgot where].

I'm bullish on Google Cloud [founder on GCE & long departed, hi there guys], so I put a solid 30 minutes of sleuthing in it, but someone less determined would have gave up a whole lot sooner.

[0] https://app.google.stackdriver.com

[1] https://app.google.stackdriver.com/account/login/<project-id...

I wish that stackdriver documentation would be more clear that you should go for sending logs through fluentd, or you are going to have bad time.

I have been using python wrapper over the stackdriver http api. To fix a few frustrations I had with it, like big logs crashing the logger or lack of identificaiton of machine that sent the log (so you can't follow single flow of execution) I wrote the https://github.com/understandwork/stackdriver_python_logger . Then, some time later I realised that I have to use fluentd anyway.

I'll bite and point out that Stackdriver Monitoring is just really really slow to render most pages even for tiny test projects that only generate small amounts of data. I'm sure you guys are aware of it, but the slowness is kind of at the point of being a usability issue. I guess I'll also add that it'd be nice to be able to plot multiple metrics in the same chart.

Stackdriver is an incredibly poorly designed, communicated, and implemented piece of software. It's not clear what it's good at or what you're supposed to use it for.

Random, completely noncontrived example:

  1. Oh, GCP wants me to use stackdriver for logging.
  2. Okay, I will click stackdriver.
  3. I have to reauth and am taken to another website with completely different UI than GCP.
  4. I click into logs.
  5. I am taken BACK to GCP, with some "stackdriver" branded logs experience.
  6. Exporting, slicing, or otherwise doing anything with these logs is pretty much a nightmare.

that said the rest of GCP is pretty good, but its clear that certain parts of it have been given very little design thought, comparatively

> could represent a significant revenue stream

If it does not, we should, like other Google offerings, expect it to be cut. Google has a strict internal business case (new from around 2010 or so) - what they do now has to make money, it's no longer enough to be getting more people to use the internet, or increase use in the brand, the services has to make business sense.

Let's hope it is used and profitable, eh.

Of course, since physics is still a thing, the above is unsustainable.

Graph electricity usage increase on the planet, and in 20-100 years we will need to convert the output of the sun, to sustain they present slope.

Hence why it will change to be in equilibrium with that you were replying to.

Just don't mistake the current spur with some kind of everlasting trend.