To improve Google Maps Platform for developers and end users, sometimes we need to deprecate existing functionality. For example, last year when many establishments closed temporarily to limit the spread of COVID-19, we introduced the business_status field to describe a place’s status in a non-binary way and deprecated the permanently_closed field because it cannot accurately […]

With ML workflows, it is often insufficient to train and deploy a given model just once. Even if the model has desired accuracy initially, this can change if the data used for making prediction requests becomes—perhaps over time—sufficiently different from the data used to originally train the model.  When new data becomes available, which could […]

The impact of COVID-19 was felt everywhere, and the world of IT—and its budgets—was certainly not spared. Yet, along with the general slowdown in IT investment were widespread reports about how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation.  To learn more about how organizations are shifting their technology priorities, Google commissioned a study by IDG to […]

Theta Labs, a leading decentralized video streaming platform, revolutionized the livestream experience with their peer-to-peer bandwidth sharing distributed ledger technology. And thanks to database and analytics solutions from Google Cloud, Theta Labs has scaled to stay ahead of its growing active user base on their blockchain platform.  It was this ability to reach more remote […]

Information security has become headline news on a daily basis. You have probably heard of security risks ranging from malicious bots used in schemes both big and small, to all-out “software supply chain attacks” that involve large-name enterprises and their customers, and that ultimately affect numerous governments, organizations, and people.  As businesses expand their digital […]

Prefer to listen rather than read? Check out this post on the podcast! When it comes to the cloud, there’s more than one way to serve a file. In this post, we’ll walk you through all the ways to serve data from Cloud Storage—so you can determine the best fit for your needs! You can […]