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Stackdriver Debugger: add application logs on the fly with no restarts

Monday, June 13, 2016

Posted by Sharat Shroff, Product ManagerGoogle Stackdriver—gcloud beta debug logpoints create command$ gcloud beta debug logpoints create MarkovServlet.java:114 "Hello seed {seed}"

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The need for speed: this week on Google Cloud Platform

Friday, June 10, 2016

Posted by Alex Barrett, Editor, Google Cloud Platform BlogGoogle Compute EngineCloud66here

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Six things Stackdriver brings to the DevOps table

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Posted by Aja Hammerly, Developer Advocate
Stackdriverthe whole thing
Monitoring and uptime monitoring Application-level monitoringGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle Compute EngineGoogle App Engine

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System-level monitoringsteal LoggingStackdriver LoggingGoogle Container EngineGoogle BigQuery

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Error reportingStackdriver Error ReportingGoogle Cloud Console

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Your Google Cloud Platform compute options, explained

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Posted by Alex Barrett, Editor, Google Cloud Platform BlogGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle Compute EngineGoogle App EngineGoogle Container EngineChoosing a Computing Option

Learn how Google Cloud Platform services map to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Check out Google Cloud Platform for AWS professionals: A guide designed to equip users familiar with AWS with the key concepts required to get started with Google Cloud Platform

Learn how Google Cloud Platform services map to Microsoft Azure services

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Best practices for Tableau Server on Google Compute Engine

Monday, June 6, 2016

Posted by Danny Bain, Manager of Cloud Server Offerings, Tableau
Google Cloud PlatformTableau DesktopGoogle BigQuery,Cloud SQLTableau Server Installation guidelinesTableau Server and Cloud Platform Installation WalkthroughGoogle Compute EngineGCP accountTableau Knowledgebase

Set up a new project and create a new Compute Engine instance

Minimum requirements are 8x vCPUs, running Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition with 128 GB persistent SSD. You’ll also want to leave API access at its default setting and allow both HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

Download the RDP and connect as normal

Download a Windows-compatible 14-day free trial version from the Tableau Server Trial Download page

Install Tableau Server, following the prompts on the screen

Create your administrator account in Tableau Server (this should be prompted automatically after installation)

Make sure to download Tableau Desktop as well, so you can connect to data and create visualizations to publish to Tableau Server

Best practices

While 8 vCPUs and 30GB of memory is the minimum, you’ll see a 75% improvement in performance with 16x vCPUs and 60GB of memory.

When scaling instances, it’s preferable to add vCPUs in smaller increments.

8 vCPUs delivers very poor performance for hundreds of users. The image below shows load testing results for Tableau Server in more detail.

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Doubling your instance disk size will double performance of the overall system (1:1 win).

For even more performance, include multiple workers in a cluster to linearly scale performance as the number of users grows. You’ll need to install a domain controller in GCP to use multiple workers in your cluster.

Select HTTPs for the best security. Read here about how to get an SSL certificate for Tableau Server.

Free certificates are available from letsencrypt.org.

If you want to use unencrypted connections, configure the Tableau Server admin password BEFORE enabling public HTTP access to your server.

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What’s new in the Kubernetes community: this week on Google Cloud Platform

Friday, June 3, 2016

Posted Alex Barrett, Editor, Google Cloud Platform Blogspate of Kubernetes-related activity these daysopen-source cluster management systemTorusKubeFuseHypernetesNavOps CommandBrendan BurnsksqlChris Klebananywhere cloud servicesputting Kubernetes through the pacesConcur and Barkly Protects Inc.Google Container Enginenode poolsSandeep Dineshusing kube-ui and Weave Scope with Google Container EngineIan Lewisusing Kubernetes Health Checks

The five phases of migrating to Google Cloud Platform

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Posted by Alex Barrett, Editor, Google Cloud Platform BlogGoogle Cloud PlatformPeter-Mark Verwoerdthe webcast Phase One: Assess Phase Two: Pilot

Phase Three: Move DataGoogle Cloud StorageNearlineLocal SSDs or persistent disksGoogle Cloud SQLDatastoreBigtable Phase Four: Move Applications Phase Five: OptimizeStackdriverPub/SubDeployment Manager

https://cloud.google.com/migrate/webinar