Dealing with high Google Cloud Run costs? Here we have two practical tips to help you save:

🔼 Committed Use Discounts: If you can commit to a certain capacity for Cloud Run over 1-3 years, you can take advantage of discounts. It’s a straightforward way to cut costs.
🔼 VPC Connections: If you’re connecting Cloud SQL to Cloud Run through a VPC, consider switching to direct egress. We helped one client reduce their costs by about 50% by making this change!

If you want more details on how to implement these tips, check out our article and a video for a step-by-step guide: https://mkdev.me/posts/2-simple-tips-to-reduce-your-google-cloud-run-costs

Guess what! We're right in the middle of our autumn 2024 travel season. We're so excited to be travelling not just to taste coffee from different parts of Europe, but also to visit industry conferences and meet new people and, of course, potential customers! When you're an expert like us, the best way to show off your skills is not on your website (even though our website is pretty cool) with some nice pictures (and our pictures are the best!), but by chatting with people. It's so important to be able to get into the heart of a business and understand its essence without the need for pre-prepared slides. It's what makes a good professional (and it's also about confidence 🙃)

In the latest mkdev dispatch newsletter, Pablo Inigo reflects on why events are so important to us. We share these thoughts every two weeks and add useful content that we have learnt from so that you can too. So subscribe: https://mkdev.me/posts/new-travel-season

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Here is Brian Grant's up-to-date list of the most important IaC tools at the moment. Definitely a good source of ideas for PoCs.

Read it here: https://itnext.io/infrastructure-as-code-landscape-overview-2024-a066124e5989
If you need help making sense of it, you know where to find us :)

The hype around AI has pros and cons that help and hurt startups developing artificial intelligence solutions. This is the view of Álvaro Sáez, CEO of a startup HechicerIA developing generative AI that turns text queries into animated 3D scenes. In the full episode, we discuss how it works and who needs it: https://mkdev.me/posts/can-genai-really-be-useful-46

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We know that being a GenAI startup can be tough. You're up against some serious competition and trying to get noticed can feel like an uphill battle. Álvaro Sáez from HechicerIA, our recent podcast guest shared some really helpful insights that we think you'll find interesting.

Do you agree with him? We'd love to hear your thoughts! You can catch the full episode here: https://mkdev.me/posts/can-genai-really-be-useful-46

If you're facing some challenges and could use a helping hand, we're here for you. Our Data and AI department is ready to lend a hand and support you in any way we can: https://mkdev.me/b/consulting#data

We caught up with Álvaro Sáez to find out what it was like developing Gen AI before all the big IT companies started offering a range of tools for it. He also shared what skills are needed to do so.


https://youtu.be/3UQf8AV2wTk

We've just published a piece on mkdev that sheds light on Google Cloud Run's CPU allocation strategies—always-on versus on-demand—and their profound impact on cloud costs. Although the differences might seem minor, they have significant implications for optimizing spending in cloud environments.

🔗 Explore the nuances and how they can affect your bottom line in our full article: https://mkdev.me/posts/google-cloud-run-always-on-vs-on-demand-cpu-allocation

👉 If you're managing cloud resources, understanding these details is crucial. Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments or join us on mkdev to discuss how you handle cloud costs!

#CloudComputing #GoogleCloudRun #DevOps #CloudCostManagement #TechInsights

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The author really goes deep, with plenty of low level details and code samples in multiple programming languages, starting with C. It’s a long read, but it’s extremely useful in case you have to fight with DNS-related problems, especially if ipv6 is involved: https://biriukov.dev/docs/resolver-dual-stack-application/0-sre-should-know-about-gnu-linux-resolvers-and-dual-stack-applications/

Should you skip the AI hype entirely, or will you miss out as people often do when a technology leaps forward? Here’s what Álvaro Sáez, CEO of HechicerIA startup has to say. Check out the full episode for more: https://mkdev.me/posts/can-genai-really-be-useful-46

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Our guest on a new episode of the #DevOpsAccents podcast has taken tech blogging to a whole new level. You may know him as Iximiuz or Ivan Velichko. With our own passion for rigorous analysis and a desire to share experiences (it's what mkdev is all about, duh), we couldn't help but invite Ivan to discuss how tech blogging was born, how insightful content is created and consumed by tens of thousands of subscribers, and how a hobby becomes a career. We also discuss his Iximiuz Labs, an indie online platform for learning Linux, containers, and Kubernetes that offers interactive online playgrounds, hands-on tutorials, and fun DevOps challenges. It started in 2023 and already attracted more than 13,000 students! Could it be we're just a little bit envious?

If you follow Ivan on Linkedin or on Twitter/X, don't miss this episode for a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most popular and successful tech blogs out there.

In this episode:
- Teaching and learning through blogging
- How topics for a tech blog are chosen
- Understanding the audience
- Monetizing a tech blog
- How Ivan's famous diagrams are created
- What makes Iximius Labs a comprehensive learning platform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LhKjf6LJwY

When comparing AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions, understanding the nuances can save your projects substantial costs.

🔼 AWS charges per millisecond -- Google Cloud rounds to the nearest 100ms.
🔼 Google Cloud charges for both memory and CPU -- AWS for memory only.
🔼 Google offers free ephemeral storage up to 512MB.
🔼 Pricing divergence is evident with 201ms requests. AWS charges for 201ms -- Google rounds to 300ms, potentially increasing costs.

For a deeper dive into how these pricing models could affect your cloud strategy, check out the full article (with video included): https://mkdev.me/posts/aws-lambda-pricing-vs-google-cloud-functions-pricing-explained


And for more cloud cost optimization for your infra apply for our FREE cloud cost audit here: https://mkdev.me/b/audits/free-cost-audit-landing

In the latest mkdev dispatch Leo talks about the growth of business AI implementation and what stands in its way. Read his thoughts and check out a collection of interesting links from around the web now, subscribe to get the next dispatch on Friday: https://mkdev.me/posts/the-ai-surge-transforming-business-54

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What do you do if you get an incident due to external providers fault? PagerDuty offers some advice on how to build a process for this. We’d definitely adapt it for cases when PagerDuty API throws timeouts at us! https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/managing-vendor-incidents/

Can the pressure of being a popular tech educator get to you? What does Ivan Velichko from Iximiuz Labs feel most obligated to pay attention to? Check out the full discussion in episode 47 of #DevOpsAccents: https://mkdev.me/posts/the-art-of-tech-blogging-with-ivan-velichko-from-iximiuz-labs-47

#Tech #Education #DevOps #Cloud

Tech content and educational content: what should be free, and what is reasonable to pay for? The line for monetization may be at times hard to define. Where do you draw that line yourself?

Here’s how Ivan Velichko from Iximiuz Labs chose to do it. You should also check out our full conversation in #DevOpsAccents episode 47: https://mkdev.me/posts/the-art-of-tech-blogging-with-ivan-velichko-from-iximiuz-labs-47

On mkdev we’ve decided for all of our courses to be free, you can always find them here: https://mkdev.me/courses

🔐 Is your Google Cloud environment truly secure?

When securing cloud services like Cloud Run, Google Cloud Armor is often the go-to solution, offering top-tier protection against threats such as DDoS attacks and SQL injection. But here's the catch: the cost can be overwhelming for many businesses.

💡 To effectively use Google Cloud Armor, you need to configure it with a load balancer and backend. While it offers robust adaptive protection, accessing the full range of features might cost you €200+ per month, scaling up to €3,000 for enterprise-grade security.

But there are alternatives! Platforms like Cloudflare provide a more budget-friendly option, offering many similar features at a fraction of the cost. With a free basic plan and a pro plan at just €20, you get solid protection without breaking the bank.

Should you spend thousands a month for enterprise protection, or is Cloudflare the smarter choice for your business? 🤔

Check out the full article to explore the trade-offs and choose the right solution for your cloud security: https://mkdev.me/posts/can-i-use-cloud-armor-with-cloud-run

#CloudSecurity #GoogleCloudArmor #Cloudflare #Cybersecurity #CloudRun #DevOps

How do you start tech blogging? How do you choose your topics? How do you promote your posts in the community? We’ve tackled all these questions and more in our conversation with Ivan Velichko in episode 47 of DevOps Accents. Check out this shorter segment or get the full episode wherever you get your podcasts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN58g9Z5igw

#DevOps #Cloud #Tech #TechBlogging

How to shift focus from story-of-the-day hyped up news to long-term deep-dive educational content? Here’s how it’s done in Iximiuz Labs. Learn more about its process from its founder in episode 47 of DevOps Accents: https://mkdev.me/posts/the-art-of-tech-blogging-with-ivan-velichko-from-iximiuz-labs-47

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Growing up is realizing that almost any kind of software will do just great even at a huge scale with a simple monolith, load balancer and relational database. This article explains the simplicity of choosing the last part for your data: https://mccue.dev/pages/8-16-24-just-use-postgres

How to find your voice and your place in the educational and tech blogging space? If you were waiting for a sign from the universe that you can do this, here it is! More advice in episode 47 of DevOps Accents with Ivan Velichko: https://mkdev.me/posts/the-art-of-tech-blogging-with-ivan-velichko-from-iximiuz-labs-47