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GCP – Introducing cross-region replica for Cloud SQL
Being responsible for business continuity isn’t easy. You must consider a wide variety of failure scenarios, including the outage of a Google region. In the event of a regional outage, you want your application and database to quickly start serving your customers in another available region if a Google Cloud region fails.We’ve worked closely with […]

GCP – How Migrate for Anthos streamlines legacy Java app modernization
Recently, we’ve been highlighting all the ways that Anthos, our hybrid and multi-cloud application platform, can help you modernize your Java applications and development and delivery processes. This week we’ll focus on how Migrate for Anthos, which takes your existing VM-based applications and intelligently converts them to run in containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), […]

GCP – Introducing skill badges, certification preparation learning paths, and online proctored certification testing
Finding the right cloud talent and expertise is important for virtually all businesses today. Almost 70 percent of IT leaders report that hiring was somewhat or extremely difficult in 2019 and that finding qualified cloud computing talent was a top challenge. Our Google Cloud training allows you to build cloud skills while our certifications help […]

GCP – How Google Maps Platform partners are responding to COVID-19
Editor’s Note:This is the third post of a series highlighting the inspiring response to COVID-19 from the Google Maps Platform community. This week we’re focusing on how a variety of our partners and solution providers are offering services to help their end customers and communities worldwide. For a look back at projects that help individuals […]

GCP – Performance tuning best practices for Memorystore for Redis
Redis is one of the most popular open source in-memory data stores, used as a database, cache and message broker. There are several deployment scenarios for running Redis on Google Cloud, with Memorystore for Redis our integrated option. Memorystore for Redis offers the benefits of Redis without the cost of managing it. It’s important to […]

Microsoft supports our professional development
You know me, I always learn something new and/or exciting. I assume most of you have similar habit. It has tons of advantages, like you can do cool things almost every day and you can provide several options when you are facing a challenge. 🙂 Unfortunately sometimes you are struggling to find the best training […]

GCP – Google Cloud adds smart analytics frameworks for AI Platform Notebooks
Google Cloud is announcing the beta release of smart analytics frameworks for AI Platform Notebooks. Smart Analytics Frameworks brings closer the model training and deployment offered by AI Platform with the ingestion, preprocessing, and exploration capabilities of our smart analytics platform. With smart analytics frameworks for AI Platform Notebooks, you can run petabyte-scale SQL queries […]

GCP – Combining the power of Apache Spark and AI Platform Notebooks with Dataproc Hub
Apache Spark is commonly used by companies that want to explore large amounts of data and perform additional machine learning (ML)-related tasks at scale. Data scientists often need to examine these large datasets with the help of tools like Jupyter Notebooks, which plug into the scalable processing powerhouse that is Spark and also give them […]

GCP – Meeting reliability challenges with SRE principles
You’ve built a beautiful, reliable service, and your users love it. After the initial rush from launch is over, realization dawns that this service not only needs to be run, but run by you! At Google, we follow site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to keep services running and users happy. Through years of work using […]
GCP – How Google Cloud partners are supporting customers during COVID-19
Against a backdrop of continuous change, I’ve been struck by what remains constant—our partner ecosystem and customers are teaming with us across various industries and geographies to help people in incredible ways during this time. Together, we’re helping hospitals acutely impacted by COVID-19, retailers and grocers address dramatic shifts in consumer behavior, employees rapidly adjust […]