Google Cloud Storage has an officially supported fuse client! This is something I have always wanted and would have expected for Google Drive, but 🤷. The only thing better than a fuse client is a fuse directory that gets mounted automatically when you log in, which you can do fairly simply using systemd --user, which is just systemd, but everthing runs as you. Here’s a gist of how I set this up on my machine:

I never realized the detail that the Google SRE book provided on the production environment at Google, including such things as D, Colossus, Jupiter, BNS, and GSLB. Also there’s now The Site Reliability Workbook, a hands-on implementation guide.

Firebase Hosting is amazing, so fast and easy to setup and they even take care of the SSL cert for you. I work for Google and didn’t even know we had this as a product, so just posting it here in case anyone else missed it.

Looks like Google Cloud Platform now has a Free Tier. I know Google App Engine has always had a free tier, it’s nice to see Cloud Platform offer something similar. That explains why my monthly bill for hosting my blog went from $9/month to around 0.75$/month. The only thing I exceed the free tier on is egress bandwidth.

Today Google launched gRPC, a new HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffer based system for building APIs. This is Google's third system for web APIs. The first system was Google Data, which was based on the Atom Publishing Protocol [RFC 5023]. It was an XML protocol over HTTP. The serving system for that grew, but started to hit scalability issues at around 50 APIs. The scaling issues weren't in the realm of serving QPS, but more in the management of that many APIs, such as rolling out new features across all APIs and all clients.