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Software Developer
250M - 500M USD, BankingFAVORABLE
“Secret Management and File Handling Improved With Google Cloud and UiPath Integration”
Honestly, as an RPA Developer, using Google Cloud with UiPath has been a total game changer for my workflows, even if the initial setup felt a bit like a maze. Connecting to the Google Cloud buckets is super smooth once you get the service account permissions right—it beats manually moving files around any day. And honestly, having the Secret Manager integrated is a massive relief because I don't have to worry about hardcoding sensitive stuff or messing with local config files that everyone ends up seeing. There's definitely a bit of a learning curve with the APIs and making sure the authentication doesnt time out mid-process, but once its running, it's rock solid.
IT Associate
10B - 30B USD, ConstructionCRITICAL
“Review by an Agent builder ”
i love escpecially vertex ai including agent engine where i can deploy my custom ADK agents super easly.
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Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.
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VP, IT Infrastructure
I am curious if anyone has recommendations for an objective third party to provide an external evaluation of GCP environments from a Fin Ops/Cost Optimization perspective. Many suppliers in the space selling reporting toolsets or serving as VARs but am interested in finding an independent third party.Director of IT
See Full DiscussionI have conducted my own investigation and analysis using native cloud platform tooling, applying the Technology Business Management (TBM) taxonomy, and LeanIX, to help understand cloud costs. Apptio is another product I was looking at as well to help improve cloud costs. Apptio is easily integrated with LeanIX. https://www.apptio.com/products/ibm-apptio/ https://www.leanix.net/en/enterprise-architecture/integrations#apptio
Cloudability is AppTio’s FinOps certified platform to enable cloud cost optimization efforts:
https://www.apptio.com/products/cloudability/
My opinion is that I don’t trust independent third-party’s (consultants) to take an unbiased approach nor even have an effective diligent approach. I have had average to poor experiences with third-party’s that management in my previous organization brought in to conduct an investigation. Given good tooling and a decent budget I think you are better off creating your own cloud centre of excellence that follows best practices for workload cost management and optimization.
Lastly, I read the recent post from Curt Hodge on that question, he is recommending PointFive. I had a look at PointFive’s website information and I would agree with Curt’s recommendation to take a closer look at the PointFive solution https://www.pointfive.co/ however at first glance they seem to be AWS focused and there is no mention of GCP integration.
VP of Product Management
We have a Vertex AI environment and we plan to apportion the consumption costs use case wise that are on onboarded on to a project. Currently Google Cloud provides option to extract data for billing at Project level only and we can get details below project level.
Hence trying to check if there is a option/configurations to be made to assign costs at use case wise that are onboarded with in a project.CIO
See Full Discussioncheck the below links:
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery-tables/standard-usage#tags
https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/pipelines/understand-pipeline-cost-labels#view_pipeline_resources_cost
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- Software Developer50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Secret Management and File Handling Improved With Google Cloud and UiPath Integration
Honestly, as an RPA Developer, using Google Cloud with UiPath has been a total game changer for my workflows, even if the initial setup felt a bit like a maze. Connecting to the Google Cloud buckets is super smooth once you get the service account permissions right—it beats manually moving files around any day. And honestly, having the Secret Manager integrated is a massive relief because I don't have to worry about hardcoding sensitive stuff or messing with local config files that everyone ends up seeing. There's definitely a bit of a learning curve with the APIs and making sure the authentication doesnt time out mid-process, but once its running, it's rock solid. - Content Communications SpecialistGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Powerful scalability and smooth performance offset by steep learning curve
Google Cloud Platform is a very strong platform of cloud computing that offers powerful scalability, infrastructure, modern cloud services and AI capabilities for companies of all sizes. Companies that mainly focus on machine learning, data analytics and cloud native applications are the biggest users of Google Cloud Platform. With network infrastructure and data centres spread worldwide across multiple regions, the Google Cloud Platform has perfect global coverage. Google Cloud also provides very powerful identity management tools to the users. The main administrators can control and decide the level of permission users have while accessing the files. Administrators can restrict access and apply additional authentication steps to ensure the safety of sensitive resources. Google Cloud Platform also offers solutions to the recovery of files in case of any disaster or deletion of files with its backup management feature. - Senior Digital Analytics Manager1B-10B USDRetailReview Source
GCP Simplifies Small Application Hosting But Interface Can Be Challenging
Overall, our experience with GCP has been positive for targeted workloads like server-side tagging and API integrations. It's a flexible platform that makes it relatively straightforward to host lightweight services without needing to manage infrastructure directly. It feels reliable and integrates naturally with the wider Google ecosystem, which is a big advantage for marketing and analytics use cases. That said, the platform can feel slightly uneven in places, particularly in the interface and navigation, which sometimes makes simple tasks harder than they need to be. - DIRECTOR, LEARNING PLATFORMS & UX50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
GCP offers a rich, reliable and efficient range of services, although some aspects could still be improved.
Having used GCP for four years now, we've been pleasantly surprised by the platform's evolution over time. The initial delays and shortcomings have largely been addressed, to the point that the offering can now seriously compete with its direct rivals. Overall, the platform remains well-organized and manages to maintain smooth navigation in most use cases, despite the large number of available services. In terms of performance, it's worth noting that service disruptions remain rare. - IT ASSOCIATE<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
"Scalable, Developer-Friendly Cloud Platforms with strong Data & AI Capabilities"
We have been using Google cloud platform to run production-grade applications and backend services at scale. Overall, the platform has been reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly. Deployment speed, managed services, and integration with modern tooling worked very well for our use case. However, cost predictability and billing transparency can sometimes be challenging, especially during rapid scaling. Support response quality varies depending on the plant tier. That said, for high-growth environments and modern architectures, GCP has delivered strong performance and flexibility.
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