A real-world scenario Imagine you are working on an e-commerce application, powered by a Cloud Spanner database. The app is performing as expected and your transactions are executing with low latency. One day, you hear a complaint that your app has slowed down, so you decide to investigate. One possibility is that the problem could […]

Leader election is a commonly applied pattern for implementing distributed systems. For example, replicated relational databases such as MySQL, or distributed key-value stores such as Apache Zookeeper, choose a leader (sometimes referred to as master) among the replicas. All write operations go through the leader, so only a single node is writing to the system […]

With more and more businesses moving online, and homegrown entrepreneurs spinning up new online apps, they’re increasingly looking for an online development platform to help them easily build and deploy their sites. Many choose Velo by Wix because it’s an open web development platform with an intuitive visual builder that accelerates front-end development and comes […]

Tackle your New Year’s resolutions with our new skills challenge, which will provide you with no cost training to build cloud knowledge and an opportunity to earn Google Cloud skill badges to showcase your cloud competencies.  There are 4 initial tracks in the skills challenge: Getting Started, Data Analytics, Hybrid and Multi-cloud, Machine Learning (ML) […]

There’s a new way to look out for potholes in the road and it doesn’t involve better eyeglasses or dispatching costly repair crews. Bus-mounted cameras and machine learning can do it for you, as the City of Memphis discovered.     Staying on top of deteriorating roads when you can’t add more personnel is a never […]