For decades, Yolo County has served its over 218,000 residents in northern California with government services delivered through physical offices. Constituents looking for career counseling and employment support, for instance, could visit one of the in-person satellite offices. But when the pandemic hit in 2020, offices closed, leaving the county struggling to provide real-time employment […]

Google is committed to be the best possible place for sustainable digital transformation for European organizations. Our Cloud on Europe’s terms initiative works to meet regional requirements for security, privacy, and digital sovereignty, without compromising on functionality or innovation.  In support of this initiative, we are making our annual declaration of adherence to two important […]

Editor’s note: Ashish Vengsarkar is a director in Google Cloud’s Global Networking group, which develops, builds and operates one of the world’s largest fiber optic networks. It is not work for a fainthearted technologist – Google’s core network carries petabit-scale traffic, with each individual optical stream delivering information at a speed of 400 gigabits per […]

Google Cloud’s Dataflow recently announced the General Availability support for Apache Beam’s generic machine learning prediction and inference transform, RunInference. In this blog, we will take a deeper dive on the transform, including: Showing the RunInference transform used with a simple model as an example, in both batch and streaming mode. Using the transform with […]