Recently, I have done a few database migration test runs to refresh my memory of working on large scale cloud migration projects in the past which included data warehouse migration. Google Cloud database migration service has been quite mature. It took me about 2 hours to set up migrating from…

The exam has become harder compared to the last time. This question appeared on the prior exam. Given the output of gcloud container clusters describe , you see the control plane has public, private endpoints, authorized network disabled; all nodes are private. How can you configure a compute engine instance…

Preface In 2022, I worked on a Google Cloud Professional Services funded project at a Google Cloud service partner company to modernize a client’s monolithic application to containers running in Anthos clusters on bare metal. The client had already broke the monolithic retail oriented application into microservices. The goal of the…

This is my 3rd time taking the security engineer exam. The topics have broaden with different focus areas. There were 50 questions and I had 30 minutes left. Cloud KMS has 3 types of protection levels creating keys: Software backed, HSM, which is FIPS 140–2 Level 3 validated, and external…

I had wanted to create a hybrid connectivity environment in a Google cloud project for months. I always thought only big corporations can afford the Cisco ASR 9000 series routers to create partner or dedicated interconnect connections. It turns out there are many home lab cases where enthusiasts found a…

This is the 3rd time I passed the cloud developer exam. Over time, the exam has become more difficult and included more new products and services. The latest additions include Cloud Run, Cloud Function, Cloud Firestore; I believe App Engine, Cloud IoT are deleted. Google cloud storage 4xx error with…

This is the 2nd time of passing the machine learning engineer exam. There were 60 questions and I literally had 0 second left after selecting the answer on the last question. I remember 2 years ago I had to guess the last 5 questions and I thought I failed the…

Google Cloud has a new product called AlloyDB to match Amazon AWS Aurora DB for PostgreSQL. I did a proof of concept on migrating from an existing PostgreSQL 14 database instance to an AlloyDB cluster. The experience wasn’t as smooth as migrating to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. …

Have you wondered how the IP or CCTV cameras are built, configured, or developed? I discovered that there are common open source tools that enable the IP camera features. I want to walk you through how to build a security surveillance system at home. …