📅 2024-09-30 — Session: Evaluated Google Cloud Pub/Sub for Automation
🕒 04:20–05:25
🏷️ Labels: Google Cloud, Pub/Sub, Automation, Messaging, Scalability
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal: The session aimed to evaluate the use of Google Cloud Pub/Sub for various automation and productivity management needs, while exploring alternatives and designing scalable architectures.
Key Activities:
- Troubleshot Gmail authentication errors, focusing on common causes and solutions.
- Viewed and consumed messages in Google Cloud Pub/Sub using Python scripts and Cloud Console.
- Set up and troubleshot Google Cloud Pub/Sub subscriptions.
- Evaluated the necessity and benefits of Google Cloud Pub/Sub for current needs, considering simpler alternatives.
- Explored how Celery’s principles can be applied to personal productivity.
- Designed a pub/sub ecosystem for automation using bots and microservices.
- Outlined best practices for designing scalable distributed architectures for data streams.
Achievements:
- Gained insights into the benefits and limitations of Google Cloud Pub/Sub for event-driven architectures and productivity management.
- Identified alternative messaging systems like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis Streams.
- Developed a blueprint for a scalable pub/sub ecosystem.
Pending Tasks:
- Further evaluation of simpler alternatives to Google Cloud Pub/Sub for specific use cases.
- Implementation of the designed pub/sub ecosystem and distributed architecture.
- Continuous monitoring and optimization of the messaging systems.