Careful what you wish for My last in-person conference before the pandemic was NDC London back in January 2020. I distinctly remember being quite tired at the beginning of 2020. For me, 2019 had been a long year with 50+ speaking engagements at a variety of conferences all around the world. …

In Workflows, sometimes, you need to store some state, a key/value pair, in a step in one execution and later read that state in another step in another execution. There’s no intrinsic key/value store in Workflows. …

You can now apply a path pattern when filtering in Eventarc. This is especially useful when you need to filter on resource names beyond exact match. Path pattern syntax allows you to define a regex-like expression that matches events as broadly as you like. Let’s take a look at a…

Building APIs with Cloud Run If I want to build an API, I usually use Cloud Run. In Cloud Run, you run a container and in that container, you run a web server that handles a base URL in this format: https://<service-name>-<hash>-<region>.a.run.app You can then have the web server handle any path under that base…

I really like the idea of containers, a reproducible context that our apps can rely on. However, I really dislike having to create a Dockerfile to define my container images. I always need to copy & paste it from somewhere and it takes me some time to get it right. …

If you’re like me, you probably use VS Code to author your Workflows JSON or YAML. You also probably expect some kind syntax validation or auto-completion as you work on your workflow. Unfortunately, there’s no VS Code extension for Workflows and Cloud Code for VS Code does not support Workflows. …

Events supported by Eventarc Last week, I put together a list of events supported by Eventarc in our eventarc-samples repo. Thanks to our docs team, this list is now part of our official docs under reference section. After looking at the full list, I started thinking about some use cases enabled by these events…

Pic-a-Daily Serverless Workshop As you might know, Guillaume Larforge and I have a Pic-a-Daily Serverless Workshop. In this workshop, we build a picture sharing application using Google Cloud serverless technologies such as Cloud Functions, App Engine, Cloud Run and more. We recently added a new service to the workshop. In this blog post…

I got around to updating my Knative Tutorial from Knative v0.16.0 to the latest Knative Serving v0.18.0release and Knative Eventing v0.18.1release. In this short blog post, I want to outline a couple of minor issues I encountered during Knative v0.18.0 upgrade. Note that I skipped v0.17 …