Google Cloud
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
Spot VMs on Google Cloud: when the discount is worth it
Spot instances trade certainty for a large discount. The question is never whether they are cheaper, it is whether your workload can survive being interrupted with…
BigQuery for people who have never used a data warehouse
BigQuery behaves unlike the databases most developers already know. Understanding why it is fast, and what makes it expensive, takes about ten minutes and saves a…
Committed use, reserved instances and savings plans compared
Every major cloud sells a discount in exchange for a commitment. The mechanisms differ in what you promise, and promising the wrong thing is how commitments…
Budget alerts that actually catch runaway spend
A single monthly budget alert usually fires days after the damage is done. A layered set of alerts catches the same problem within hours.
GPU instances: what you are actually paying for
GPU instances are among the most expensive things you can rent and among the most commonly underused. The difference between good and poor value is almost…