Building an ELT pipeline using Google Sheets as an intermediary BigQuery offers the ability to quickly import a CSV file, both from the web user interface and from the command line: Limitations of autodetect and import This works for your plain-vanilla CSV files, but can fail on complex CSV files. As an example of a […]
With over 3.7 million members, Ricardo is the most trusted, convenient, and largest online marketplace in Switzerland. We successfully migrated from on-prem to Google Cloud in 2019, a move that also raised some new use cases that we were keen to solve. With our on-premises data center closing, we were under deadline to find a […]
Our “State of the API Economy 2021” report confirms that though digital transformation has been among enterprises’ top business imperatives for years, the COVID-19 pandemic and changing market conditions have increased this urgency. Organizations across the world weathered the pandemic by compressing years of digital transformation into just a few months. Our research reflects this […]
Some of the most impactful decisions made when designing a map involve what to show at each zoom level to best help the map viewer make a choice or take an action. Our team is always evaluating and optimizing content and geometry across zoom ranges to determine when to show points of interest (POIs), road labels, […]
A real-world scenario Imagine you are working on an e-commerce application, powered by a Cloud Spanner database. The app is performing as expected and your transactions are executing with low latency. One day, you hear a complaint that your app has slowed down, so you decide to investigate. One possibility is that the problem could […]
With more and more businesses moving online, and homegrown entrepreneurs spinning up new online apps, they’re increasingly looking for an online development platform to help them easily build and deploy their sites. Many choose Velo by Wix because it’s an open web development platform with an intuitive visual builder that accelerates front-end development and comes […]
Leader election is a commonly applied pattern for implementing distributed systems. For example, replicated relational databases such as MySQL, or distributed key-value stores such as Apache Zookeeper, choose a leader (sometimes referred to as master) among the replicas. All write operations go through the leader, so only a single node is writing to the system […]
There’s a new way to look out for potholes in the road and it doesn’t involve better eyeglasses or dispatching costly repair crews. Bus-mounted cameras and machine learning can do it for you, as the City of Memphis discovered. Staying on top of deteriorating roads when you can’t add more personnel is a never […]
Tackle your New Year’s resolutions with our new skills challenge, which will provide you with no cost training to build cloud knowledge and an opportunity to earn Google Cloud skill badges to showcase your cloud competencies. There are 4 initial tracks in the skills challenge: Getting Started, Data Analytics, Hybrid and Multi-cloud, Machine Learning (ML) […]
Cloud storage enables organizations to reduce costs and operational burden, scale faster, and unlock other cloud computing benefits. At the same time, they must also ensure they meet privacy and security requirements to restrict access and protect sensitive information. Security is a common concern we hear from companies as they move their data to the […]