Architecture Framework helps customers utilize a set of canonical best practices to design and build workloads on Google Cloud that are secure, reliable, and scalable, while applying cost and performance optimization techniques.  The Architecture Framework is organized into 6 pillars. System design considerations cover foundational building blocks such Compute, Storage, and Database, expanding best practices […]

Data is one of your most valuable assets; understanding and using data effectively powers your business. However, it can also be a source of privacy, security, and compliance risk.  The data discovery and classification capabilities of Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) have helped many Google Cloud customers identify where sensitive data resides. However, data growth […]

Whether you are moving your applications to the cloud or modernizing them using Kubernetes, observing cloud-based workloads is more challenging than observing traditional deployments.  When monitoring on-prem monoliths, operations teams had full visibility over the entire stack and full control over how/what telemetry data is collected (from infrastructure to platform to application data). In cloud-based […]

Google Cloud Next ‘21 is over, but the learning is just beginning. With three days of keynotes, deep dives, and announcements, there was a lot to take in! But don’t worry if you missed something—the Google Cloud Blog team is here to round up our favorite announcements of Next ‘21. The biggest announcements You can […]

Enterprises across the globe are seeing surging demand for digital experiences from their customers, employees, and partners. For many of these enterprises, hundreds of business applications are hosted in private or public clouds that interact with their users (customers, partners, and employees) spread across geographies, channels (web, mobile, APIs, VPNs, and cloud services), and time […]

Apache Spark has become a popular platform as it can serve all of data engineering, data exploration, and machine learning use cases. However, Spark still requires the on-premises way of managing clusters and tuning infrastructure for each job. Also, end to end use cases require Spark to be used along with technologies like TensorFlow, and […]

Editor’s Note: Mark your calendars. TheGoogle Cloud Government and Education Summit is less than a month away – November 3-4. Reserve your spot today at no cost. We’ve seen public sector organizations embrace a new ethos over the last 18 months – finding new avenues and methods to experiment, hire fast, and weave technology into […]