The Hidden Costs of Cloud

Join us as we interview GCP customer, Server Density, which offers is a SaaS infrastructure monitoring product which allows ops teams to monitor key metrics, build dashboards and configure alerts. In early 2017 they started with a zero downtime migration of a time series database performing over 150,000 writes/sec to Google Bigtable and had the entire application stack fully migrated by Nov. They will be sharing some lessons learned, things they wish they knew before their migration, how they came to understand a new cloud cost model, and the importance of architecting for costs as well as high availability, scalability, and performance. They will also be available to answer live questions!

David Mytton co-founded Server Density back in 2009 and leads the company as its CEO. He built the original version of the product which included the first version of the time series database on top of MongoDB, which has now been fully migrated to Google Bigtable and OpenTSDB.

You can find David on Twitter: @davidmytton

[SnoopyDoofie]

One of the topics that should be covered in more detail is what impacts can be expected when choosing .a region to have your app hosted in. If my app was designed to be international but where the initial release is targeting the USA, it would make sense to chose hosting in central USA. But if western Europe is added afterwards, how does GCP handle data between the two regions when that data needs to be shared? What costs are involved here, including hidden costs? Does data replication between the two regions happen automatically or does this have to be configured and are there costs and latency issues to take into consideration?

[saradamanib]

Is server Density is the tool of choice for monitoring and cost control of GCP for a client? What other tools do we have for GCP infrastructure monitoring for a client.