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Troubleshooting 4 common errors when calling Google Cloud Run from App Script
Author: Nauvoo Perez Cloud Run, a serverless compute platform managed by Google, has become a popular way to run containerised apps. Recently, I worked on a project where I had to…
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014: The 3080
"Make your own future" - In this episode we discuss; Kelsy Hightower Talk, Google I/O, Coursea Google Courses, SWIFT on GCP, GCP vs MS Q1 Results. Show Page: GCP Life…
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013: The Migration
"How's that migration going?" - In this episode we discuss; Google Q1 Results, Why Cloud Migrations are slow, Google Cuts Jobs, Earth Day, Prevision, Auto DLP, Google Security and the…
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Helping People & Culture Teams with Google Workspace Automation
Here at Mantel Group, we’re growing fast. The company was created in 2017 but today it has grown to over 500 employees and the highest growth rate has been achieved…
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012: The Tinfoil Hat
"We love a good list!" - In this episode we discuss; Google Cloud Summit, Lapsus$, Google Distributed Edge, Google Search Features, 5 Things CIOs Should Know. Show Page: GCP Life…
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011: The Dulcet Tones
"GCVE Is about to explode!" - In this episode we discuss; Google News Blocked in Russia, VMWare Licencing, Cloud Armor, Diagramming Tool, Google Layoffs, VM Suspending, North Korean Chrome Exploit,…
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010: The Boat
"They don't execute it nearly as well!" - In this episode we discuss; Google Cloud to stop accepting new Russian customers, GCP Prices Increase, GCP Cuts Aussie Jobs, Google aquires…
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How Google Workspace makes virtual hiring and onboarding engaging and productive
Erika Bell | Kasna Companies all over the world, from Digital Natives, mid market organisations to Fortune500 are facing many challenges imposed by remote work post pandemic. The move to…
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A No Ops Approach to Auto Healing Dataflow Pipelines with Site Reliability Engineering Principles
Dheerendra Nath | Principal Consultant at Kasna Here’s a No-Ops take on applying modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to developing an auto-healing capability for Dataflow pipelines in production on…
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Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365 (2022) ANZ SME Edition
The digital world is changing. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the remote workforce has exploded in the past 10 years, with the number of non-self-employed people who…
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007: The Protip
"Resist the temptation to click ops!" - In this episode we discuss the Kubernetes Documentary, New GCP features, Temporal.io, and the top 10 cloud certs. Show Page: GCP Life Podcast…
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006: The Acquisition
"I moved my personal blog to Google Cloud!" - In this episode we discuss Google acquiring Siemplify, A new bigquery feature, Google Cloud improvements for 2021, Google Cloud Marketplace, Google…
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005: The Big Wet
"What's the secret to getting a certification?" - In this episode we discuss GCP Developer Certification, Getting Encryption Right With Cloud, a new Sydney Tech Hub, Google Crypto Miners, The…
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My Journey into Data Engineering
Demand for data engineers is growing rapidly and showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, DICE recently named data engineering as the fastest growing tech occupation in a 2020…
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003: The Best Practice
"This horror story is a doozy!" - In this show we discuss, Buildpacks, Careers at Kasna, Best practices for Google Cloud and the value of Alphabet. Show Page: GCP Life…
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002: The Documentary
"A Kubernetes Documentary !?" - In this episode we discuss the Google Cyber Security Action Team, a Google Anti-Trust, Python GIL, Devops Lab, Worlds Fastest Quantum Computer, and a Kubernetes…
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001: The Quantum Leap
"You probably what to know a bit about us ?" - In this episode we discuss, Who we are, Google Next, Dora Research Program, Quantum Computing and Between Two Clouds.…
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The Principles of DevOps and SRE
Stephen Bancroft | Cloud Engineer at Kasna The terms “DevOps” and “SRE” are still new to me, I only really became aware of their existence around two years ago, but…
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Melbourne Interconnect
Ira Bailey | Senior Cloud Engineer at Kasna Until a few weeks ago, the only public cloud provider in Australia that offered more than a single cloud region was Azure.…
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Using Terraform to create secure IAP tunnels on GCP with conditional IAM policies
Calum Hunter, Kasna Cloud Engineer Summary. This post will detail how to create a secure IAP (Identity Aware Proxy) tunnel to a VM (Virtual Machine) inside a VPC without requiring a public…
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Professional Cloud Architect Exam Study Guide
By Lizzie Reid One of the most sought after industry certifications in tech is the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, and sometimes it can be daunting with all the sources…
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Detecting Machine Learned Anomalies in Real Time Foreign Exchange Data
Dataflow Financial Services Anomaly Detection Patrick Flavel - Data Scientist For code snippets and paths to files in this blog post, check out our github repository. The Relative Strength Index,…
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From intern to cloud engineer in a year
By Gwenny Warnick, Cloud Engineer @ Kasna TL:DR; I did a great traineeship at a Melbourne-based startup after career-changing into tech and now I’m a happy cloud engineer. A small…
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Three steps to achieve a better patient experience using data in the healthcare industry
Article by Kasna CEO Simon Poulton & Kasna CTO Troy Bebee. If COVID-19 has revealed anything about Australia’s healthcare system, it is that most organisations are under-resourced and under-invested…
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Nutanix DaaS Solutions with G-Cloud Platform
Monika Bhardwaj, Cloud Consultant at Kasna 6 Minute Read We are all learning new ways of working remotely and how to manage the IT overheads as a result of the…
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Securing a Redis Server in Kubernetes
Wenjing Yan, Cloud Engineer at Kasna 7 Minute Read Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store or a key-value store used as a database, cache, and message broker. It…
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Google Cloud Data Fusion comparison with existing solutions
Written by Bruno Liberal de Araújo, Data Engineer at Kasna I’ve always enjoyed seeing tools that make tasks easier. Tools that bring more non-technical users close to specific areas like…
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Alright Node Pools, Which One of You is Dave?
Terraform’s create_before_destroy, random_id and keepers Zoe Higgins12 Minute Read I recently found myself in a bit of a pickle when managing GKE node pools. I was tasked with minimising node…
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Masking Personally Identifiable Information with Salt using Cloud Data Fusion
Written by Bruno Araujo at Kasna The first time I heard about Cloud Data Fusion (CDF) I thought of it as a good tool that would have helped me…
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Transitioning to the world of Google Cloud
By Anupam Phoghat Over the last decade, technology has evolved exponentially. Unlike the ‘old days’ (I mean the time before 2010) when a particular technology would remain at its…
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Kasna achieves Google Cloud Machine Learning Specialisation, recognising customer success
Tuesday 18 February 2020 – Google Cloud specialist, Kasna, has achieved the Machine Learning specialisation as part of the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program, recognising outstanding success in applying machine…
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Understanding the absence of women as DevOps and cloud engineers
Understanding the Absence of Women as DevOps and Cloud Engineers By Zoe Higgins Before I start - yes, I know. We all know that there are not very many women…
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Running gaming platforms at scale in Kubernetes
Kasna cloud engineer Sai Maduri elaborates on a kube demo running Agones and OpenMatch that he built for the Google Cloud Summit Sydney. As we all embrace Kubernetes for its…
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Ok Google, what’s Next?
Simon Poulton, CEO, Kasna A few weeks ago the Kasna team journeyed to the hills of San Francisco for Google Cloud Next ‘19. We’ve got some detailed blogs in the…
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How can your business be better in the Cloud?
Kasna is excited to be hosting an event in partnership with Google Cloud on Thursday 21 February. This exclusive event is a unique opportunity to hear from Google Cloud and…
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How Cloud Is Changing Your Business… Again.
Cloud Computing was such a seismic shift to the technology industry that trying to discuss it as a single concept is like trying to nail down condensed water vapor. What…
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Internet of Things – a practical example
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to cover a wide variety of scenarios where the ability to connect otherwise unrelated items into a single solution via the…
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Five different perspectives on using Google tech in business
Bringing Google inside your business means different things to different people. This whitepaper examines the potential transition to Google from five different perspectives. Download the whitepaper to better understand how it might impact on different roles in your business, including a CEO/CFO, CIO/COO, CTO, Head of Development, and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
CIO’s guide to open application development
Today, information pervades every interaction – and companies are grappling with how to extract business value from growing volumes of data. This need is driving faster software development cycles in which IT is expected to deliver new functionality continuously.
