With Google recently launching Synthetic Monitoring as part of their Cloud Monitoring toolkit it provides an opportunity to introduce the topic of “application monitoring”. — Google has recently announced the addition of synthetic monitoring to their Cloud Monitoring toolkit and it’s a positive first step for anyone working primarily within the GCP ecosystem and its native services. Under the covers the checks run as Cloud Functions, and there is an open-source Google Synthetics SDK —…

As the football season kicked off, I was thinking of the analogies and comparisons of a Football Team to Software Engineering. — Well done to the Lionesses on their victory at the weekend and making it through to the World Cup Semi Final — the whole country will be cheering them on this coming Wednesday, I am sure. …

This tutorial will guide you through creating a CI/CD Pipeline on the Google Cloud Platform using Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy. — Cloud Deploy sits in the Continuous Delivery space and at its initial launch it offered automated deployments of applications into GKE clusters. The service leverages Cloud Build for its job execution platform, integrates with Cloud Operations suite and Cloud Pub/Sub for further automation, and captures and reports on two of…

In this tutorial, we’ll build a QR Code generator in Python and deploy it to Cloud Run on the Google Cloud Platform where it will return QR Codes in response to HTTP requests. — Cloud Run is a managed platform that lets you run containers directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure. A common use case is to have a container that responds to web requests, and Google allows you to use their run.app domain or you can use your own custom domain. …

In February 2022, the Google Cloud Platform team launched their Google Cloud Architecture Diagramming Tool. It looked awesome, and we’re really excited to try out the one-click deployment option. Let’s take a look. — During the week, Google Developer Advocate Priyanka Vergadia announced the launch of an architecture diagramming tool. The announcement created a buzz, especially as alternatives often require using icon sets inside more generic diagramming tools like Lucid or Visio.

Automate the CI/CD pipeline for your Firebase Functions with GitHub Actions and a Google Service Account. — This short article will walk through the configuration required to automate the deployment of your Firebase Functions using GitHub Actions. Get Started With CI/CD Using GitHub Actions In this introduction to GitHub Actions, we’ll explore how to build and deploy a Python Flask application to AWS Elastic…medium.com

This tutorial will guide you through creating a CI/CD Pipeline on the Google Cloud Platform using Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy. — Cloud Deploy is the latest service from Google in the Continuous Delivery space and automates deployments of your application into your GKE clusters. Under the covers it leverages Cloud Build for its job execution platform, integrates with Cloud Operations suite and Cloud Pub/Sub for further automation, and captures and reports…

This five minute tutorial will guide you through creating a container image using Cloud Build, Google’s tool for build, test, and deployment automation workloads. — Join me for a brief introduction to Google Cloud Build, as we walk through writing our first build pipeline using Google’s CI/CD platform. …

A two minute guide to redirecting all traffic on your website from the bare / naked / apex domain to www. — It is a common requirement for system and website administrators to redirect users to a common entry point for their website — also known as a canonical hostname. This is usually in one of two directions, i.e. www to non-www or non-www to www. This brief guide shows techniques for…