Google Networking Deep Dive — What’s behind the scenes For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by the inner workings of Google’s data center network. What powers the vast Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and seamlessly connects users worldwide? Specifically, I wanted to discuss how the Google network is built in their data centers ?✏️ ? Today, we delve into the world of Google’s Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), peering, and the magic behind it all. Enjoy the read!?‍? Google Innovations Most Google networking implementations in datacenters are based on Google innovations( Maglev, Jupiter, And ..read more

Google Cloud KMS or Key Management Service is a cloud service to manage encryption keys for other Google Cloud services that enterprises can use to implement cryptographic functions. Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) is a cloud-based key management system that enables you to create, use, and manage cryptographic keys and perform cryptographic operations in a secure manner. When data is stored in Google Cloud, it is encrypted at rest by default. So when users use Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) platform, they can gain greater control over how their data is encrypted at re ..read more

Theses last days, I had the opportunity to test the last features on Google Network Connectivity Center with VPC spokes mode. I give you my feedback. Introduction What is Network Connectivity Center Network Connectivity Center limitations Create your own ncc hub Review Introduction Actually, we have two approaches to interconnect VPCs in GCP. A centralized approach with a shared VPC or a decentralized model with a VPC peering or VPN. In a large-scale deployment with the constraints of large organizations, the centralized model is limiting due to the complexity of implementation and t ..read more

Build a Chatbot on iOS with the Firebase Gemini API Extension in Swift & SwiftUI: A Step-by-Step Guide Before proceeding, please consider subscribing to my YouTube Channel Watch the video or follow along with the post below. https://medium.com/media/8ee1e0bc5e575af3147cbb1547721f2c/href Originally posted on my website. Previously we’ve seen how to use the Gemini AI Swift SDK to chat with the LLM using text-based requests. Google has recently rolled out a Firebase extension that gives you another way of working with Gemini API but through Firebase. The advantage of this exte ..read more

In this article, I am going to show you how to use a Spotify songs dataset containing over 20k songs with various attributes, which we will use to create vector embeddings and eventually run a semantic search to fetch the relevant songs. This use case can be expanded to various scenarios where you want to capture the semantic similarity or relationships between items in a high-dimensional space. For instance, it can be applied to recommendation systems in e-commerce platforms to suggest products similar to ones a user has shown interest in, or in content discovery algorithms to recommend ..read more

Overview This script demonstrates how to insert an animated GIF over cells in a Google Sheet using Google Apps Script. Description I recently received a request to create a Google Apps Script for inserting animated GIFs into cells on a Google Sheet. I previously published a sample script on my blog on June 6, 2017. Ref In that script, the animation GIF was inserted using a public link. This new script leverages data URLs, which simplifies the process for using GIFs stored in Google Drive. Since this approach might be helpful to others, I’m sharing it here. Usage 1. Prepare animation ..read more

AlloyDB Omni is the downloadable version of the Google Cloud fully PostgreSQL compatible database service AlloyDB. It is packed with a lot of improvements in performance, scalability and management. You can read more about AlloyDB Omni in the Google blog. The deployment and management parts of the AlloyDB Omni is left to the customer and it makes perfect sense — it is deployed in the customer’s environment and depends on internal requirements. But there are some best practices we probably all should follow. One of them is securing connections to our databases. It is important to keep communic ..read more

Kubernetes Mastery : Day 4 : k8s logging Mechanism Hey guys, so here in this article we will be understanding the kubernetes (k8s) logging mechanism. This is foundational for effective troubleshooting and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters. Let’s delve deeper into this topic: Unified Logging Approach: Kubernetes follows a unified logging approach, wherein containers within pods write their logs to stdout (standard output) and stderr (standard error). This convention allows Kubernetes to treat logs as streams of data, facilitating easy aggregation and management. Container Runti ..read more

Google Maps Platform APIs Google Maps Platform (GMP) helps businesses and customers find each other. Connecting buyers and sellers is a centuries old problem and anyone who has used Google Maps, the world’s most popular navigation application, knows how powerful this application is in finding people and places. GMP makes this technology available through Google Cloud via APIs and SDKs. As of this publish date, there are over 30 APIs organized into 4 product categories: Maps Routes Places Environment. How can Google Maps Platform boost your business? 4 Google Maps Platform Product C ..read more

Codelab: Using Gemini Code Assist to explore and enhance Generative AI Document Summarization Jump Start Solution Google Cloud Jump Start solutions are pre-built sample applications and infrastructure best-practices that you can deploy within a few clicks in your own Google Cloud account. If you would like an introduction to Jump Start Solutions, check out my blog post titled Super charge your Google Cloud Learning with Jump Start Solutions. This post is focused on a codelab that you can do for the following: Understand one of the Jump Start Solutions — Generative AI Document Summar ..read more