Resounding Support and Accolades Mark The First C2C Connect: France Group Event
With conversation continuing to the last moment of the event, more than 40 C2C members connected on January 21 using their native language, French.
Bouncing between discussing cloud computing, serverless, and managed services, the first of four introductory sessions conducted to build global peer-to-peer groups was a veritable hit.
Hosted by C2C members Guillaume Blaquiere and Antoine Castex, the session created an open forum to share without reservations the benefits and desired improvements of Google Cloud products. The freedom to communicate directly with like-minded peers is one of the critical competitive advantages C2C offers.
“I found the event super dynamic! It is very important to nurture such communities,” said one attendee, Silviu. “Customer feedback, even when it is negative, is super important to us as sales[people].”
As one suggestion spurred on another, and soon it was like old friends connecting again. They shared their honest perspectives about what can and does go wrong with cloud and what to do about it.
The group offered some suggestions, like the following:
- Use workflows to trigger scenarios with several Cloud Builds.
- Cloud Source repository isn’t a product to use for collaborative development, only for basic code versioning.
- Reference Google Cloud Platform documentation when needing support or having questions about the products.
However, they didn’t hold back on improvements, which is an opportunity that C2C is proud to offer the Google Cloud space.
“I really like the independent and somewhat critical aspect of Google (not everything is rosy),” said one attendee who wished not to be named.
Some of the critiques include:
- More documentation on Cloud Workflow,
- A desire for additional functionality on Google Cloud products, and
- frustration with the lack of essential features for Cloud Source repository.
“PubSub is a product that we would like to see on any Google Cloud product,” said Castex
The upcoming session will cover the following topics that came up but didn’t make it to the discussion floor:
- Data pipeline documentation explicitly focusing on the “extract, transform and load (ETL)” integration strategies as well as the “extract, load and transform (ELT) strategy.
- Monitoring and OpenTelemetry compliance. For those still learning, “OpenTelemetry is a set of instrumentation libraries for collecting trace and metric data that work with multiple backends,” according to the Google Cloud blog.
- The big difference between Google Cloud Products and the two other public cloud solutions, specifically around the network. What are GCP’s strengths and weaknesses concerning Azure and AWS and use cases or experiences with Google?
The upcoming sessions will also be 30 minutes, which attendees called “practical and dynamic,” but can expand as the group continues throughout the year. If any of the above sounds exciting or valuable to you, be sure to sign up!
