Business leaders see much in Artificial Intelligence, including new ways to save money, serve customers, and figure out what to build. What’s often tougher is deciding how to engage. That’s understandable, since getting into AI often raises questions about costs, data integrity, project length, and similar issues of planning and execution. For CIOs concerned with […]

On November 30th, 2021, Google submitted Knative to be considered as an incubating project, which began the process for handing over the project to be managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today we are pleased to acknowledge the completion of this process, allowing the next phase of community-driven innovation in Knative to begin.  […]

When we talk about reimagining the future of work, one group that’s often left out of the conversation is the frontline workforce. The pandemic, however, has reminded us of the importance of frontline workers. With the exodus of frontline workers in the ongoing Great Resignation, there’s now greater urgency for businesses to rethink the workplace […]

As traditional Moore’s law improvements slow down, we are now turning to custom chips to continue improving performance and efficiency. Innovations like Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and Video Coding Units (VCUs) have been incredibly valuable at sustainably meeting the growing demand for machine learning and video distribution services, and we expect to see additional […]

PostgreSQL uses transaction IDs (TXIDs, XIDs) to implement Multi-Version Concurrency Control semantics (MVCC). The PostgreSQL documentation explains the role of TXIDs as follows: PostgreSQL’s MVCC transaction semantics depend on being able to compare transaction ID (XID) numbers: a row version with an insertion XID greater than the current transaction’s XID is “in the future” and […]

We are excited to announce that Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available! Now you can get all the benefits of open source-compatible monitoring with the ease of use of Google-scale managed services. The rapid adoption of managed platforms and services across the cloud computing industry has shown that fewer and fewer […]

New technologies like integrated artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, 5G communications, and Internet of Things (IoT) products, as well as the emergence of customers as competitors with in-house chip design capabilities are forcing the semiconductor industry to shift away from a focus on engineering and operations and toward a strong focus on product development, new […]