Mindful Containers is a fictitious company that is creating containerized microservice applications. They need a fully managed compute environment for deploying and scaling serverless containerized microservices. So, they are considering Cloud Run.  They are excited about Cloud Run because it abstracts away the cluster configuration, monitoring, and management so they can focus on building the […]

Financial institutions across the globe rely on real-time indices to inform real-time portfolio valuations, to provide benchmarks for other investments, and as a basis for passive investment instruments including exchange-traded products (ETPs). This reliance is growing—the index industry dramatically expanded in 2020, reaching revenues of $4.08 billion. Today, indices are calculated and distributed by index […]

It’s been another busy month for security teams around the globe with no signs of slowing down. Many of us virtually attended RSA, and ransomware attacks continue to dominate headlines. The Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity is officially underway, with important milestones like the NIST workshops where many of us discussed the Standards and […]

Many of the world’s leading companies run on SAP—and deploying it on Google Cloud extends the benefits of SAP even further. Migrating your current SAP S/4HANA deployment to Google Cloud—whether it resides on your company’s on-premises servers or another cloud service—provides your organization with a flexible virtualized architecture that lets you scale your environment to […]

Today I’m sharing some recent work by the Google Maps Platform JavaScript team focused on improving accessibility in the Maps JavaScript API. Last year we began a renewed effort to become more accessible ‘out of the box’, and to provide more hooks for developers to make accessible experiences.  We are committed to continuously making accessibility […]