The python language is very popular. Data science, data pipeline, API backends (…), Python is everywhere. Even on the generative AI studio, Google Cloud proposes CURL and Python code snippets, no other languages! Despite its ease and popularity, I continue to dislike (and to discourage the usage of) Python for…

Managed services come with tradeoffs. You gain in agility, speed and scalability but you lose the control and the optimization of the infrastructure layer. Sometimes worse, you inherited additional and useless layers (from your point of view) which can reduce the infrastructure efficiency Indeed, going serverless is new for many…

Cloud Storage is very popular and one of the first services that you use when you move to the cloud or when you want to import/export data to/from Google Cloud. It’s a convenient, serverless, limitless scalable object storage service. Cloud Storage Limitations Serverless services always come with limitation because of opinionated choice made…

ChatGPT gained a lot of attraction the past months and for many, it sounds like a revolution. Microsoft itself quickly announced a deep and exclusive partnership with OpenAI to integrate this technology to its search engine “Bing” to have conversational and enhanced results. Something like ChatGPT could change Microsoft’s web…

Event driven has been becoming very popular those past years especially with cloud platforms and their elasticity; led by serverless products. Even if there are many different event management products on Google Cloud, there is one missing piece. …

This article is a personal opinion on ChatGPT. I’m not a data scientist, only a tech savvy guy that tests and learns of all cutting edge tech stuff. The year 2022 has been very rich in terms of tech innovations but ChatGPT has definitely been the most popular in Q4…

Security is paramount for any type of services and environments. Solutions exist to host, manage and serve secrets securely and at scale. On Google Cloud, Secret Manager is the native service dedicated to secret management. To simplify accessing the secrets, Secret Manager is directly integrated in some Google Cloud services…

In this article, the “App Engine” term only represents the App Engine Standard version. All the cloud providers offer serverless services. Serverless is wonderful! You have no servers to set up, install, manage or provision. You simply use the services and pay-as-you-use them. On Google Cloud, there are many serverles…

Modern code development is based on automation, and especially CI/CD pipelines (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment/Delivery). On Google Cloud, Cloud Build is the serverless solution to achieve CI/CD and offers many features and highly customizable pipelines. During the code packaging, you might need to rely on other data than only your…