Readings for Lunch — [ 26 Sep 2018 ]
DEVOPS
Syncing millions of records a day to BigQuery: our experience moving from GAE to GKE
This week we moved one of our analytics workloads from Google App Engine (GAE) to the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and wanted to share our experience in simplifying a setup that syncs millions of records to BigQuery each and every day.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever
Dropbox migration from Python 2 to Python 3 started in 2015. This transition is now complete. Here some of their findings and their approaches to this gigantic task.