Firestore ◦ nam5 (beta) (2018-07) ◦ cf. asia-northeast1 (2019-02) • Used for real-time application mainly targeted for residents in Japan, launched in summer 2019 ◦ Tightly connected with servers in Japan 😱😱😱 • > 100 ms in latency (~ 250 ms round trip) https://developers.googleblog.com/en/nosql-for-the-serverless- age-announcing-cloud-firestore-general-availability-and-update s/
GKE? ◦ = “Kubernetes” = hard way ▪ Version upgrade, fleet management, cost efficiency ◦ GKE Autopilot ▪ For both easy-to-use and full flexibility ▪ Autoscaling Replacing w/GKE Autopilot 🏗 🏗