Spotify is moving their entire backend to GCP. You will get to hear their challenges, problems and also success stories and what to think about when choosing and moving services into the cloud.
11. Looks awesome!
● No need to distribute AWS accounts
● No need to manage ACLs
● Extremely easy to use
~# spcloud create --name web --project alexey
12. … or not really :(
● Testing environment, shamelessly misused for production
● No accountability or a proper ownership tracking
○ 60% of instances were wasting money
● Access only to the basic cloud primitives
○ Which are already available on-premise
Currently being deprecated.
16. Things we learned
● VPN is tricky
● GCP network is great
● Keep an eye on quotas
● Live VM migration!
● Think about ACL mgmt in advance
● BigTable, GCS, BigQuery are awesome