What does modernization mean? As an IT leader or architect, you may notice that your software architecture is encountering performance issues. You may be considering moving your datastore from a mainframe or a traditional relational database (RDBMS) to a more modern database to take advantage of advanced analytics, scale at a faster rate, and opportunities […]

We are excited to announce Traffic Director’s general availability of client authorization by proxyless gRPC services. This release, in conjunction with Traffic Director’s capability for managing mutual TLS (mTLS) credentials for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), enables customers to centrally manage access between workloads using Traffic Director. With the new authorization support, you can explicitly permit […]

Google Cloud introduced Document AI to automate document processing and to streamline workflows with state-of-the-art machine learning models. With the deep neural networks, the models generalize the learning from seeing hundreds of thousands variations of the documents. But when information is missing or ambiguous on a document – like a missing address or entity name […]

Today, we are introducing Cloud Functions (2nd gen), Google Cloud’s next-generation Functions-as-a-Service product. This next generation version of Cloud Functions comes with an advanced feature set giving you more powerful infrastructure, advanced control over performance and scalability, more control around the functions runtime and triggers from over 90 event sources. Further, the infrastructure is powered […]

Like many businesses around the world, Google is trying to combine on-site and off-site work into an efficient hybrid model. And like most businesses, we’re also figuring out how to get it right. As we grow our vision for the best possible hybrid workplace, one theme consistently emerges: the need for collaboration equity.  Collaboration equity […]

Thirty five years ago, SQL-86, the first SQL standard, came into our world, published as an ANSI standard in 1986 and adopted by the International Standards Organization (ISO) in 1987. On this Valentine’s Day, we, in BigQuery, reaffirm our love and commitment to user-friendly SQL through a whole slew of new SQL features that we’re […]

Alongside the rise in popularity of cloud computing, there has also been an ongoing movement towards lighter and more flexible workloads. Yet, there is still a significant share of legacy applications in enterprises both large and small running in expensive and harder-to-maintain virtual machine (VM) environments. These workloads are often crucial to the enterprises’ wellbeing, […]

Last year Google announced general availability of Dataflow Flex templates. We covered many details of this new way to deploy Dataflow pipelines in this blog. Here we offer additional tips and suggestions, best practices, details on using Google Artifact Repository for storing template’s Docker images, and ways to reduce cost for certain kinds of pipelines. […]