Generative AI diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion and Flux produce stunning visuals, empowering creators across various verticals with impressive image generation capabilities. However, generating high-quality images through sophisticated pipelines can be computationally demanding, even with powerful hardware like GPUs and TPUs, impacting both costs and time-to-result. The key challenge lies in optimizing the entire […]

As a developer, there’s a lot to think about when you’re getting ready to launch an application. There’s the availability of the underlying database, of course, which stores application state, and determines how fast and you can recover if your application or web servers go down. Thankfully, if you’re running on Spanner, its 99.999% availability […]

It’s no secret that large language models (LLMs) and generative AI have become a key part of the application landscape. But most foundational LLMs are consumed as a service, meaning they’re hosted and served by a third party and accessed via APIs. Ultimately, this reliance on external APIs creates bottlenecks for developers. There are many […]

Picture this: you’re an Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) responsible for the systems that power your company’s machine learning (ML) services. What do you do to ensure you have a reliable ML service, how do you know you’re doing it well, and how can you build strong systems to support these services?  As artificial intelligence (AI) […]

The continued advancement of experimental quantum computing has raised concerns about the security of many of the world’s widely-used public-key cryptography systems. Crucially, there exists the potential for sufficiently large, cryptographically-relevant quantum computers to break these algorithms. This potential highlights the need for developers to build and implement quantum-resistant cryptography now. Fortunately, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) […]