In this blog post, we’ll answer the question, “How did the Brexit vote impact exchange rates between the British Pound and US Dollar?” To do so, we’ll use causal inference techniques to estimate the impact of what statisticians call a “treatment,” in this case a policy decision. Please note that this is a technical blog […]

Keeping the experience of your end user in mind is important when developing applications. Observability tools help your team measure important performance indicators that are important to your users, like uptime. It’s generally a good practice to measure your service internally via metrics and logs which can give you indications of uptime, but an external […]

Data science is one of today’s key priorities for finance industry leaders. Data Scientists harness knowledge to draw meaning from data, to turn data into information, and to translate information into practical insights that will bring a better understanding of how to gain customer loyalty, minimize churn, and grow revenue. In this blog post we […]

Developed by SoftServe with the use of Google Cloud, the Investment Products Recommendation Engine (IPRE) is a solution designed to tackle common retail banking customer investment challenges. In particular, it makes investment recommendations based on BigQuery ML model capabilities. Big data pipelines are utilized to process investment data. The environment setup is automated with the […]

Last month marked the two-year anniversary of Google Cloud Partner Advantage. I want to thank our fast-growing ecosystem of global partners for their hard work, imagination, and energized commitment, and to reflect on how much we’ve accomplished together. In 2019, we kicked off by building a multi-year action plan together with partners, added some innovative […]

There has recently been a lot of interest in migrating from existing open source relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL to Google Cloud Spanner to enable horizontal scaling. This type of heterogeneous migration can be complicated, however there are two open source tools that can help: HarbourBridge and the Data Validation Tool. HarbourBridge is […]