Eventarc - A unified eventing experience in Google Cloud

 Posted on 16 January 2021

I recently talked about orchestration versus choreography in connecting microservices and introduced Workflows for use cases that can benefit from a central orchestrator. I also mentioned Eventarc and Pub/Sub in the choreography camp for more loosely coupled event-driven architectures. In this blog post, I talk more about the unified eventing experience by Eventarc. What is Eventarc? We announced Eventarc back in October as a new eventing functionality that enables you to send events to Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. Read More ↗︎
Eventarc  Serverless  Google Cloud Platform  How To 

Better service orchestration with Workflows

 Posted on 2 December 2020

Going from a single monolithic application to a set of small, independent microservices has clear benefits. Microservices enable reusability, make it easier to change and scale apps on demand. At the same time, they introduce new challenges. No longer is there a single monolith with all the business logic neatly contained and services communicating with simple method calls. In the microservices world, communication has to go over the wire with REST or some kind of eventing mechanism and you need to find a way to get independent microservices to work toward a common goal. Read More ↗︎
Workflows  Serverless  Google Cloud Platform  How To 

Introducing Eventarc in Pic-a-Daily Serverless Workshop

 Posted on 30 November 2020

Pic-a-Daily Serverless Workshop As you might know, Guillaume Larforge and I have a Pic-a-Daily Serverless Workshop. In this workshop, we build a picture sharing application using Google Cloud serverless technologies such as Cloud Functions, App Engine, Cloud Run and more. We recently added a new service to the workshop. In this blog post, I want to talk about the new service. I also want to talk about Eventarc and how it helped us to get events to the new service. Read More →
Eventarc  Serverless  Google Cloud Platform  How To 

.NET 5.0 on Google Cloud

 Posted on 20 November 2020

.NET 5.0 was released just a few days ago with many new features, improvements, C# 9 support, F# 5 support, and more. .NET 5.0 is the first release of the unified .NET vision that was announced last year. Going forward, there will be just one .NET targeting Windows, Linux, macOS, and more. Google Cloud already has support for different versions of .NET. You can run traditional Windows based .NET apps on Windows Servers in Compute Engine or on Windows Containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Read More ↗︎
.NET  Google Cloud Platform  How To 

Knative v0.18.0 update

 Posted on 12 October 2020

I got around to updating my Knative Tutorial from Knative v0.16.0 to the latest Knative Serving v0.18.0 release and Knative Eventing v0.18.1 release. In this short blog post, I want to outline a couple of minor issues I encountered during my upgrade. Note that I skipped v0.17 altogether, some of these changes might have happened in that release. Istio Installation The biggest change I encountered is how Istio is installed for Knative. Read More →
Knative  Serverless  Kubernetes  Google Cloud Platform  How To 

Events for Cloud Run for Anthos >= Knative Eventing on Kubernetes

 Posted on 8 October 2020

Introduction We recently announced a new feature, Events for Cloud Run for Anthos, to build event driven systems on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). In the announcement, we also stated that the solution is based on open-source Knative. In this blog post, I want to further explain the relationship between this new feature and Knative. I also want to convince you that our solution is an easier way to deploy Knative compliant event consuming services on Google Cloud. Read More →
Eventing  Cloud Run  Serverless  How To 

Cloud Run for Anthos brings eventing to your Kubernetes microservices

 Posted on 24 September 2020

Building microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides you with maximum flexibility to build your applications, while still benefiting from the scale and toolset that Google Cloud has to offer. But with great flexibility comes great responsibility. Orchestrating microservices can be difficult, requiring non-trivial implementation, customization, and maintenance of messaging systems. Cloud Run for Anthos now includes an events feature that allows you to easily build event-driven systems on Google Cloud. Read More ↗︎
Cloud Run  Serverless  Google Cloud Platform  How To 

A first look at serverless orchestration with Workflows

 Posted on 8 September 2020

Challenges in connecting services When I think about my recent projects, I probably spent half of my time coding new services and the other half in connecting services. Service A calling Service B, or Service C calling an external service and using the result to feed into another Service D. Connecting services is one of those things that ‘should be easy’ but in reality, it takes a lot of time and effort. Read More →
Workflows  Cloud Run  Serverless  How To 

Scheduled serverless dbt + BigQuery service

 Posted on 29 July 2020

My colleague Felipe Hoffa recently published a blog post titled Get started with BigQuery and dbt, the easy way. More specifically, he showed how to install dbt in Google Cloud Shell, configure it and manually run it to create a temporary dataset in BigQuery. This is great for testing dbt + BigQuery but how do you run this kind of setup in production? dbt documentation states that Running dbt in production simply means setting up a system to run a dbt job on a schedule, rather than running dbt commands manually from the command line. Read More →
Cloud Run  Serverless  BigQuery  dbt  How To 

Knative v0.16.0 update

 Posted on 22 July 2020

I finally got around to updating my Knative Tutorial from Knative v0.14.0 to the latest Knative v0.16.0 release. Since I skipped v0.15.0, I’m not sure which changes are due to v0.15.0 vs. v0.16.0. Regardless, there have been some notable changes that I want to outline in this blog post. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Feel free to let me know in the comments if there are other notable changes that I should be aware of. Read More →
Knative  Serverless  Kubernetes  Google Cloud Platform  How To