Terraform | Python | Kubernetes | GCP | AWS
Limit your BigQuery costs with Terraform
Let’s say you are a happy BigQuery user, and you spend about 100 euro a month on it. This may be fine for your (small) business but an expensive query is quick to make. But what is expensive? Because really; it’s hard to create one that costs more than 30 euro. But what if someone accidentally deploys something that fires off a 1 euro query every second. That means a 2....
PostgreSQL benchmark over Cloud Proxy in GKE: socket vs port
In my bubble it’s always been common knowledge that a database connection over a Unix socket is faster than that same connection over a TCP connection. But does this boat still float when using the Google recommended way to access Cloud SQL from GKE: with Google Cloud Proxy as a sidecar in a pod? Since Cloud Proxy moves data over a TCP tunnel, speed should be identical. So to save everyone a little time, I did some very minimal benchmarking:...