As the affordable choice for cloud computing, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is catching up to its competitors, like AWS and Microsoft Azure. As a business, you need the speed and scalability that the cloud provides, but you want to limit your costs to ensure you hit revenue targets. With GCP, you found a digital services business partner to help you meet your business objectives, a technology that gives you the service availability you want at the speed you need.

The explosive growth of web applications has created a serious blind spot for End User Computing (EUC) teams. While a few of the most business-critical custom web applications built by company DevOps teams are instrumented with Application Performance Management (APM) tools, the remaining commercial SaaS applications, whether customized/extended or “out-of-the-box” are a complete blind-spot.

What's the difference between SREs and Platform Engineers? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

In a perfect world, data would move over the Internet in real time. There would be no delays whatsoever between when one computer sends data out over the network and when it reaches the recipient. In the real world, however, there is always some level of delay when exchanging data over the network. That delay is measured in terms of network latency. Ideally, network latency is so low that no one notices it.