Picture this: you’ve just set up a mission-critical database on Cloud SQL and you’re excitedly preparing to turn on live traffic. As you go through your final launch checklist, you recall that Cloud SQL schedules routine maintenance. You pause to consider whether your system is set up properly to account for these maintenance updates. In […]

In this post, we will cover an end-to-end workflow enabling dual model deployment scenarios using Kubeflow, TensorFlow Extended (TFX), and Vertex AI. We will start with the motivation behind the project and then we will move over to the approaches we realized as a part of this project. We will conclude the post by going […]

Editor’s note: There’s more to ensuring a product’s reliability than following a bunch of prescriptive rules. Today, we hear from some Google SREs—Vartika Agarwal, Senior Technical Program Manager, Development; Tracy Ferrell, Senior SRE Manager; Mahesh Palekar, Director SRE; and Magi Agrama, Senior Technical Program Manager, SRE—about how to evaluate your team’s current reliability mindset, and […]

Continuous delivery is frequently top-of-mind for organizations adopting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). However, continuous delivery —deploying container image artifacts into your various environments—remains complex, particularly in Kubernetes environments. With little in the way of accepted best practices, building and scaling continuous delivery tooling, pipelines, and repeatable processes is hard work that requires a lot of […]

Today, we would like to announce that HarbourBridge—the open source toolkit that automates much of the migration effort to Cloud Spanner including evaluation and assessment—supports DynamoDB in addition to existing support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. This allows DynamoDB users to try out Cloud Spanner with zero-configuration. HarbourBridge helps users to quickly resolve issues during schema […]

While some traditional financial services companies have more slowly transitioned to the cloud, capital markets firms have embraced cloud computing across their entire value chains — front-, middle-, and back-office. We wanted to understand the dynamics behind this rapid adoption, the most common use cases, and the types of technology most in use, particularly as […]