One challenge to migrating databases is lining up your environment so that you don’t end up with compatibility issues. So what happens, when you want to move to a managed service in the Cloud, like Cloud SQL, and you discover that your favorite extension isn’t supported? …

As hopefully you all know by now, migrating your SQL database got easier this past November when Google’s Database Migration Service went GA for MySQL. If you didn’t know, migrating your SQL database to Cloud SQL is now easier! …

Last November, we made relational database migration easier for MySQL users with our public preview of Database Migration Service (DMS). Today, we’ve officially made the product generally available, and bring the same easy-to-use migration functionality to PostgreSQL. The thing I’ve appreciated the most about diving deep with DMS has been…

That's a new one to me! At least on this. Generally, I believe that happens when you're trying to use an HTTP service with HTTPS when it's not configured to serve HTTPS traffic. Nothing in this walk through does anything like that, so I'm wondering if perhaps it's something in your application maybe?

There are times when I’m building an application on GCP when I don’t want to use a more traditional datastore like Cloud SQL or Bigtable. Right now, for example, I’m building an app that allows non-technical folks to easily add icons into a build system. I’m not going to write…

Hi friends! Hopefully you’ve already heard about a new product we’ve released: Database Migration Service (DMS). If you haven’t, you should check out the announcement blog. TL;DR, the idea is to make migrating your databases reliably into a fully managed Cloud SQL instance as easy and secure as possible. I’ll…

Hi friends! This blog is a bit longer than my usual how-to’s, because we’re dealing with a lot of moving parts. …

Hi friends! This post is an addendum to a blog post I wrote for running a Kubernetes application with the Cloud SQL Proxy running in a sidecar. In writing that blog, I found myself bouncing all around in order to figure out enough about containers from a position of “I…

Hi friends! Whatever the reason may be, there comes a time in most developers’ lives, that we need to show off something we’ve done with a database back-end. While throwing up a database is now much easier than it once was, there still remains the problem of inserting a bunch…