A database is a key architectural component of almost every application. When you design an application, you’ll invariably need to durably store application data. Without persisting data to a shared database, there are neither options for application scalability nor for upgrades to the underlying hardware. More disastrous, any data will be immediately lost in the […]

Ever since Google announced support for Kotlin on Android, Android developers are increasingly adopting Kotlin as their programming language of choice. Developers love Kotlin for how expressive it is, how it enables defensible programming through nullability support, and how it interoperates with Java. In fact, the recent State of Kotlin on Android survey shows that […]

Editor’s note: This is the first blog in a three-part series examining the internal Google history that led to Dataflow, how Dataflow works as a Google Cloud service, and how it compares and contrasts with other products in the marketplace.  Google Cloud’s Dataflow, part of our smart analytics platform, is a streaming analytics service that […]

Generating synthetic data at a very high queries per second (QPS) is a challenging task that forces developers to build and launch multiple instances of a complex multi-threaded application. Having learned that this is a very common need which helps IT teams to validate system resilience during evaluations and migrations to new platforms, we decided […]

Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Rob Voets, Senior Advisor for S&L Zorg, a caregiving organization for people with intellectual disabilities in the Netherlands. S&L Zorg operates two large residences and several smaller homes in and around the West Brabant region, caring for about 360 clients. The organization has adopted a cloud-first approach, choosing Chrome […]