Editor’s note: Gordon Lucas, Global Head of Digital Engineering at Costa Coffee, explains how Google Maps Platform helps direct customers to each of its 4,000 plus Costa Coffee shops across the world, as well as streamline payments, and optimize deliveries. When brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa opened the first Costa Coffee in central London in […]

With networking at the foundation of all cloud deployments and business processes, proactively maintaining network health is mission-critical. The cloud is powerful and dynamic, but can sometimes feel complex, as customers often encounter network issues from unintentionally deploying suboptimal or error-prone configurations.  For example, organizations may deploy changes that unknowingly introduce misconfigurations, contradict best practices, […]

PostgreSQL uses transaction IDs (also called TXIDs or XIDs) to implement Multi-Version Concurrency Control semantics (MVCC). The PostgreSQL documentation explains the role of XIDs 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 typical smart factory is said to produce around 5 petabytes of data per week. That’s equivalent to 5 million gigabytes, or roughly 20,000 smartphones. Managing such vast amounts of data in one facility, let alone a global organization, would be challenging enough. Doing so on the factory floor, in near-real-time, to drive insights, enhancements, […]

Extending Chrome’s Security Insights to Google Workspace and Google Cloud Today, we announced the Chrome Enterprise Connectors Framework, a better way for businesses to easily integrate Chrome browser with popular security platforms such as Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike. We’re also excited to extend support for Google Workspace and other Cloud products, including Google […]

Building a more integrated ecosystem to keep your enterprise secure It isn’t always clear where your next threat will come from, but being prepared is the best possible response plan. As you steer your enterprise through an increasingly complex world, you need to be ready to thwart cyberattacks online. At Google, we have always been […]

Recently, at Google I/O, we announced AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding, enterprise-grade transactional and analytical workloads. Imagine PostgreSQL plus the best of the cloud: elastic storage and compute, intelligent caching, and AI/ML-powered management. Further, AlloyDB delivers unmatched price-performance: In our performance tests, it’s more than 4x faster on transactional workloads, and […]

Gartner® named Google as a Leader in the 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services report. This evaluation covered Google’s language, vision and structured data products including AutoML, all of which we deliver through Google Cloud. We believe this recognition is a reflection of the confidence and satisfaction that customers have in our language, […]