Calling Native Libraries from Java

A couple of options I've used and seen: 

• Java Native interface - watch out for segfaults! 
• Project Panama - early access
• GraalVM - still really new.
• zt-exec - call the native library as an external process
• remotetea - an old favourite if it's legacy C++ code

Google Cloud IAM Madness

After the recent GCP outage related to IAM, I found some odd behaviour with gsutil/gcloud. A script that had faithfully run for many months stopped working with:

ServiceException: 401 Anonymous caller does not have storage.buckets.list access to project xxxx

I tried recreating the service account key used for the operation with no luck. To fix the problem, I had to create a new bucket!

gsutil mb -b on -l us-east1 gs://my-awesome-bucket123ed321/
Creating gs://my-awesome-bucket123ed321/...
gsutil ls
gs://my-awesome-bucket123ed321/
gs://<my_original_bucket_I_couldnt_see>/

Wierd!!!!

Cloud Billing Budget API in beta

You can finally set budgets via the API in GCP. This is a huge relief to all those org admins out there who have had to do this manually.

AND, hold on to your hats, there's terraform support as well! 

Looks like Christmas came late....

data "google_billing_account" "account" {
  provider = google-beta
  billing_account = "000000-0000000-0000000-000000"
}

resource "google_billing_budget" "budget" {
  provider = google-beta
  billing_account = data.google_billing_account.account.id
  display_name = "Example Billing Budget"
  amount {
    specified_amount {
      currency_code = "USD"
      units = "100000"
    }
  }
  threshold_rules {
      threshold_percent =  0.5
  }
}

Flink Kubernetes operators

How I wish these operators had existed a few years ago when I was setting up Flink...

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/flink-on-k8s-operator

https://www.ververica.com/blog/google-cloud-platforms-flink-operator-for-kubernetes