Sole-tenant nodes are an important service on Google Cloud Platform to run workloads that require workload isolation or need to comply to specific licensing requirements that demand dedicated infrastructure. A detailed description what a Sole-Tenant Node is and how it is different from general fleet VMs can be found in…
Sole-tenant nodes are being used by customers for workload isolation and also for licensing compliance (e.g. bringing Window Server licenses). Throughout the life cycle of a sole-tenant node there might be the necessity of moving virtual machines to another node group or even to another machine family (e.g.…
This article has now been published on the official Google Cloud Blog.…
If you happen to use a Mac based keyboard and Google Cloud Shell you might be facing some issues when typing special chars such as \, |. There is a simple fix, that'll get you going. Hit the cog on the left upper side in Cloud Shell: Settings option in Cloud ShellSelect…
Google just released beta support for Cloud Spanner dialect for Hibernate ORM. This enables Java (and other JVM based languages) developers integrating their applications directly with Cloud Spanner and helps them to increase productivity. Support for Hibernate ORM is built on top of the open source Cloud Spanner JDBC driver.…
Rethink.In May I started my journey with HorseAnalytics serving as their CTO. Just a couple of weeks into my tenure the unthinkable happened: money ran out and we were not able to secure bridge funding to see the motion we already set into motion to an end. I learned…