So you’ve decided to migrate your business to the cloud—good call! There are many workloads that are easy to lift and shift to the cloud, but there are also specialized workloads (such as Oracle) that are difficult to migrate to a cloud environment due to complicated licensing, hardware, and support requirements. Bare Metal Solution provides […]

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is an essential part of engineering at Google—it’s a mindset, and a set of practices, metrics, and prescriptive ways to ensure systems reliability. But not everyone knows the best places to start to implement SRE in their own organizations. Here are our top resources at Google Cloud for getting started. 1. […]

We want to help customers use Google Cloud while trusting us less. This is the philosophy behind a lot of our security work, as we’ve described before. It’s part of our vision for a trusted cloud, our plan to build technologies and strategies that earn greater trust.  To that end, we are releasing a new […]

As we think about economic recovery from COVID-19—both inside Google and outside through working with Google Cloud customers—we’ve made many important observations. Among them is the recognition that the ways software developers and IT practitioners work together will shift in the post COVID-19 world. Our economic recovery today will look different than past recoveries, and […]

Cloud Functions, Google Cloud’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering, is a lightweight, easy-to-use compute platform for creating single-purpose, stand-alone functions that respond to events, without having to manage a server or runtime environment. Cloud Functions is a great fit for serverless, application, mobile or IoT backends, real-time data processing systems, video, image and sentiment […]

Customer expectations have shifted as a result of evolving needs. Across industries, customers expect that you treat them as individuals, and demonstrate how well you understand and serve their unique needs. This concept—personalization—is the idea that you’re delivering a tailored experience to each customer corresponding to their needs and preferences; you’re setting up a process […]

Knowing the exact changes made to a SQL Server database on Google Cloud is now possible with the release of support for Change Data Capture (CDC) in Cloud SQL for SQL Server. The following SQL Server versions now support CDC in Cloud SQL: SQL Server 2017 Standard SQL Server 2017 Enterprise This blog post will […]

Each year the Go team at Google conducts a developer survey, to capture feedback from the Go community, and identify trends that shape our work. Go is one of the most popular languages used on Google Cloud, and this year, we expanded the survey to include more specific questions around Cloud development. We’re sharing some […]

From efficient data centers to purchasing renewable energy at scale, Google is dedicated to doing our part to protect the environment and planet alongside our customers, partners, and larger communities. In 2007, Google became a carbon neutral company, and in 2017, it became the first company to match 100% of its annual electricity consumption with […]