Data security is an ongoing concern for anyone managing a data warehouse. Organizations need to control access to data, down to the granular level, for secure access to data both internally and externally. With the complexity of data platforms increasing day by day, it’s become even more critical to identify and monitor access to sensitive […]

Cloud Functions is a fully managed event-driven serverless function-as-a-service (FaaS). It is a small piece of code that runs in response to an event. Because it is fully managed, developers can just write the code and deploy it without worrying about managing the servers or scaling up/down with traffic spikes. It is also fully integrated […]

Our mission with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is compatibility; we want our users to be able to run their applications unchanged while using Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL as their relational database management system (RDBMS).  Thefinal release for PostgreSQL 9.6 is slated for November 11th, 2021. This is a good time to consider upgrading to a […]

One facet of our work as Customer Reliability Engineers—Google Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) tapped to help Google Cloud customers develop that practice in their own organizations—is advising operations or SRE teams to improve their operational maturity. We’ve noticed a recurring question cropping up across many of these discussions, usually phrased along the lines of “is […]

At its core, Data and Analytics allows us to make impactful decisions by deriving insights from our data. In the pursuit of making data meaningful, data scientists and engineers are often tasked with building end-to-end workflows to ingest, process and analyze data.  These workflows will usually involve multiple tasks, or services that need to be […]