Small businesses are the backbone of economies, and over the last four-plus years, UK-based startup Fluidly has built an industry-leading platform that helps small businesses and their accountants simplify their most critical accounting and cash flow work. Fluidly provides businesses intelligent cash flow management, which Hans Morris, a managing partner and early Fluidly investor at […]

Service accounts on Google Cloud are used when a workload needs to access resources or conduct actions without end-user involvement.  There are multiple methods of authenticating using service accounts, including using service accounts as part of Google Compute Engine instances, impersonating service accounts, or using service accounts with a key file — an option which […]

We’re continuing to offer learning opportunities at no charge to help you grow your Google Cloud skills. Here are ten training offers you can take advantage of before the end of this year to keep building your knowledge of machine learning, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and more.  Register here by January 10, 2022 to receive […]

oddschecker is the UK’s largest sports odds comparison website. We collect bookmaker pricing of various sports teams, games, and best prices, in multiple territories, and present them to our customers in a collated view. This unique view benefits our customers because of the pricing difference between one bookmaker and another. In the UK, we work […]

Over the last 3 years, Cloud Tasks, our fully-managed asynchronous execution control service, has been an essential part of production infrastructure for Google Cloud customers everywhere. Today we are thrilled to announce that you can now create Cloud Tasks queues in multiple GCP Regions around the world. At Google Cloud, we believe that if we […]

NIST has announced a recent vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Apache Log4jlibrary. To help with detection, Google Cloud IDS customers can now monitor and detect attempted exploits of CVE-2021-44228.  Background The Apache Log4j utility is a commonly used component for logging requests. On December 9, 2021, a vulnerability was reported that could allow a system running […]

NIST has announced a recent vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Apache Log4jlibrary. To help mitigate the effects of this vulnerability, Google Cloud Armor customers can now deploy a new preconfigured WAF rule that will help detect and, optionally, block attempted exploits of CVE-2021-44228.  Background The Apache Log4j utility is a commonly used component for logging requests. […]

We’re very excited to announce the general availability of the Ruby Active Record Adapter for Google Cloud Spanner. Ruby Active Record is a powerful Object-Relational Mapping(ORM) library bundled with Ruby on Rails. Active Record provides an abstraction over the underlying database, and includes capabilities such as automatically generating schema changes and managing schema version history. […]