Google Cloud Pub/Sub, the jewel of streaming data
We used Google Cloud Pub/Sub to solve ETL/Streaming and real-time processing problems for high volumes of data. We used it either to fill …
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What is Google Cloud Pub/Sub?
Google offers Cloud Pub/Sub, a managed message oriented middleware supporting many-to-many asynchronous messaging between applications.
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Google offers Cloud Pub/Sub, a managed message oriented middleware supporting many-to-many asynchronous messaging between applications.
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The most common users of Google Cloud Pub/Sub are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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July 22, 2021
Messaging Service is Great for Distributed Systems
We have a highly distributed system of batch jobs. We use Google Cloud Pub/Sub in order to communicate between our front-end, orchestration software, and VMs running batch workloads. It serves as a key piece under the hood for running jobs for scientists and it allows us to distribute our workloads across specialized VMs.
- A hands-off approach to publishing messages and subscribing to topics.
- Easy to use APIs.
- Useful, simple UI on cloud console to send messages for debugging, etc.
- I can't think of missing functionality, but added functionality is always nice!
- Allowed the use of specialized VMs
- Saves costs and time
Compute Engine is not a direct competitor, but in fact, works well coupled with Pub/Sub.
October 26, 2020
Reliable Pub/Sub Vendor
Score 10 out of 10
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Google Cloud Pub/Sub is used for processing scheduled tasks, sending notifications to clients and other background job execution. It helps in the point-in-time queue to send notifications to customers. As a team lead, I helped my team to transition
from the legacy queue system to the Google Cloud Pub/Sub real-time system to capture Play billing
alerts in real time.
- Queue Caching
- Notification Service
- Background Task
- Priority Queue is a missing feature
- Positive Results and Good customer retention
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Amazon SQS has no integration with google play billing whereas Google Cloud Pub/Sub had native integration with google cloud billing, Play billing.
December 14, 2019
Pub/Sub, simple + reliable + scalable = a great product
Our company currently uses Pub/Sub to reliably queue up messages that arrive rapidly from multiple instances. It's a very technical product and really only used by the development team rather than company-wide. The primary problem it addresses for us is its ability to handle scale and resilience in the case of errors.
- Highly scalable.
- Queues messages for up to 7 days if not acknowledged.
- Would be nice if the queue could be extended beyond 7 days.
- We found it a bit tricky replay unacknowledged messages when needed.
- Pub/Sub has helped avoid data loss improving our customer value prop.
- Pub/Sub has reduced development time that would otherwise be needed to build a highly scalable queue.
We considered several messaging platforms including Kafka and Kinesis but both would have required more developer work and didn't integrate as nicely with our ecosystem. RabbitMQ is another messaging platform I've researched and prototyped on; it also would have required more developer time to implement as well but might be a good alternative for a hobbyist or a team looking for more customization.