You’ve just completed your cloud Proof-of-Concept (POC). Your team spent dozens–even hundreds of hours and long days, enduring frustrations and successes proving the methodology and technology. It feels like it’s time for the next step in your cloud journey–but really, it’s the time to step back and evaluate your POC objectively. Let’s face it–POC also […]
Don’t let your GCP POC undermine your production environment Read More »
This week we’re going to take the blog in a slightly different direction. Our other posts have covered some of the creative and interesting ways that our Engineers have addressed challenges or developed new techniques to innovate in their work. This time around, we’re going to look at how those Engineers got here by examining
Interviewing Engineers at SADA Read More »
For Cloud Environments, symmetric hashing is incredibly valuable when dealing with stateful network appliances or applications. Typically, network appliances or applications deployed in GCP provide advanced Layer 7 functionality, such as protocol inspection or HTTPS parsing for malicious payloads. These devices often need to participate in both the request and response portions of the TCP
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Organizations of nearly all sizes likely have an Active Directory domain of some sort. These range from a small number of Windows servers or desktops to the largest enterprises with thousands of servers. They might be simple configurations with just a few domain controllers, or incredibly complex configurations with multiple sites, clusters, and different types
Using GCP Managed Active Directory to simplify domain authentication Read More »
As part of a migration from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), our client required compute-resilience with persistent storage. While both cloud services offer robust compute recovery processes, we found GCP’s easier to configure than AWS. In this blog post, we will review the original AWS configuration, GCP’s alternative configuration, how we
AWS to GCP migration: Automated system outage recovery using GCP Managed Instance Groups Read More »