Welcome to above the clouds

GCP – Empowering allergy sufferers with our Pollen API, now generally available
Climate change and its effects have significantly increased the number of allergy sufferers. According to theWorld Allergy Organization, over 400 million people now suffer from a pollen allergy globally, creating a very large market for allergy remedies. People who suffer from allergies are looking for relevant information they can trust to manage their symptoms. In […]

GCP – Reckitt: Transforming consumer insights with Google Cloud
At Reckitt, we exist to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world. We work tirelessly to get our products into the hands of those who need them across the world because we believe that access to high-quality health and hygiene is a right and not a privilege. The […]

GCP – Elite performance in demand-based downscaling: The power of workload autoscaling
Scaling down your workloads by 4x certainly sounds appealing, doesn’t it? The State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report discovered that elite performers can scale down four times more than their low-performing counterparts. This advantage stems from elite performers tapping into existing autoscaling capabilities more than any other group. The elite performer group understands that demand-based […]

GCP – Provision cross-region internal Application LB with automatic failover, health checks and geo-routing
Google Cloud offers a variety of load balancing solutions which simplify the management of networking infrastructure and support different types of backend services. Now available, the cross-region internal Application Load Balancer expands this coverage by providing integrations to load balance, geo-route, and automatically failover to backends in multiple regions. In this walkthrough we’ll focus on […]

GCP – What’s new in Dataflow: Intelligence, developer experience, performance and more
2023 so far has been a year unlike any in the recent past. Machine learning (ML), specifically generative AI and the possibilities that it enables, has taken many industries by storm and developers and data practitioners are exploring ways to bring the benefits of gen AI to their users. At the same time, most businesses […]

GCP – Meet Gen AI Navigator: Your personalized guide to adopting generative AI
As we enter the home stretch of 2023, it’s almost impossible to imagine a world before the generative AI explosion we’ve experienced over the last year. Today, it’s no longer just the thing everyone is talking about, it’s also the thing everyone is experimenting with hands-on, or at least trying to figure out the best […]

GCP – Shining a light in the dark: Measuring global internet shutdowns
It’s hard to imagine (or for some of us, remember) life without the internet. From work, to family, to leisure, the internet has become interwoven in the fabric of our routines. But what if all of that got cut off, suddenly and without warning? For many people around the world, that’s a daily reality. In […]

GCP – Build immersive maps at scale with Photorealistic 3D, 2D, and Street View Tiles, now in GA
Post Content Read More for the details.

GCP – Introducing the new Places API with access to EV, accessibility features, and more
A new Places API is now available to give developers the opportunity to share new types of information from Google Maps with their end users. New features in Text Search, Place Details and Photos, and Nearby Search–which now includes EV charging–make it easier for developers to surface helpful information about the world in the products […]
GCP – IntelliJ IDE 向け Cloud Code プラグインを使用して Dataflow 開発を簡素化
※この投稿は米国時間 2023 年 10 月 14 日に、Google Cloud blog に投稿されたものの抄訳です。 開発者向け IDE から直接 Dataflow パイプラインを実行できる機能は、データ エンジニアやデータ サイエンティストが完全な Dataflow パイプラインを構築することを可能にする非常に便利な機能です。IDE で Cloud Dataflow が提供する充実した開発体験により、新規および既存ユーザーにとっての Dataflow パイプラインの開発プロセスがスムーズになり、開発者やデータ エンジニア、データ サイエンティストは Dataflow ストリーミング パイプラインの構築にかかる習得期間や準備期間を短縮できます。 このたび、Dataflow に Cloud Code プラグインが導入され、IntelliJ IDE で次の機能を利用して、非常に簡単に Dataflow パイプラインの作成と実行を行うことができるようになりました。 IntelliJ IDE からの Dataflow パイプラインの実行 – 新機能により IntelliJ IDE から直接 Dataflow パイプラインを作成し実行できます。コードを記述するのと同じ環境でパイプラインを開発および実行できるため、パイプラインを迅速に立ち上げることができます。エラーチェックと診断 – Dataflow パイプラインを実行しながら、診断に関わるすべての情報(エラー、警告、情報など)を IntelliJ […]