Reliable, scalable and language agnostic microservices with protocol buffers and gRPC.

April 2, 2017

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or a monolith, badum tish!) for the past couple of years, you will have heard the term microservices at some point. Chances are you, or someone you know, are developing microservices.

Google Cloud NEXT '17 - Authenticating Service-to-Service Calls with Google Cloud Endpoints

March 10, 2017

What?

• Authentication vs authorization
• Scenarios: When to use service-to-Service auth
  • Mobile apps
  • Microservices
  • Cloud to cloud

Google Cloud NEXT '17 - Building High Performance Microservices with Go, Kubernetes and gRPC

March 10, 2017

Microservice Performance Gotchas

• Slow data serialization
• Network contention
• High per-process overhead

Google Cloud NEXT '17 - Globally Scalable Microservices with Google Container Engine and Google Load Balancing

March 9, 2017

Sidecar container

Container that helps the primary container do it’s job.

Google Cloud NEXT '17 - Using Google Container Engine to Deploy Scalable and Secure PHP Applications

March 9, 2017

Advantages of Compute Engine for PHP

• Easy to spin up apps like WordPress (via cloud launcher)
• Easy to spin up LAMP stack (via cloud launcher)
• Low barrier of entry (it’s just VMs people!)
• Autoscaling instance groups
• Easy SSL firewall