Creating and managing the security of Kubernetes clusters is a lot like building or renovating a house. Both require making concessions across many areas when trying to find a balance between security, usability and maintainability. For homeowners, these choices include utility and aesthetic options, such as installing floors, fixtures, benchtops, and tiles. They also include […]

At any given time, eBay’s marketplace has more than 1.9 billion listings from millions of different sellers, running the gamut from the latest gadgets to the most obscure collectibles. Using deep machine learning (ML), AI-driven search capabilities, and natural language processing (NLP), we have streamlined the user experience, making it easier to explore and find […]

Platform engineering, rooted in DevOps principles, streamlines developer experience and boosts productivity through automated infrastructure and self-service tools. In this blog, we’ll talk about how Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) enables you to build a secure, scalable internal developer platform in Google Cloud for fast and reliable application delivery. Adopting a modern architecture with cloud-first infrastructure […]

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Elastic to support their Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) product on GKE in Autopilot mode of operation. Customers can now take advantage of the combined benefits of GKE Autopilot and ECK for their search, observability and security needs, all running on infrastructure that provides a fully managed […]

Announcing the BigQuery entity resolution frameworkIn today’s data-driven world, fragmented information can paint a blurry picture of your users and customers. Connecting the dots between disparate records to reveal a unified identity is a common challenge. Manual data matching is error-prone, time-consuming, and does not scale. That’s where entity resolution can provide critical value. Whether […]

gRPC is a modern open-source, high-performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that plays a critical role in efficiently connecting microservices. Spring, meanwhile, is a popular framework that provides a flexible, modular programming model, comprehensive infrastructure integrations with a rich ecosystem and community support. Imagine if you could use these two popular technologies together? In this […]

Kubernetes is a popular way to run AI workloads like training, and large language model (LLM) serving, including our new open model Gemma. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in Autopilot mode provides a fully managed Kubernetes platform that offers the power and flexibility of Kubernetes but without the need to worry about compute nodes, so you […]

Editor’s note: DZ BANK is the second largest bank by assets in Germany. In this post, Cloud Engineer Tim Harpe from DZ BANK shares how migrating to Google Cloud resulted in spectacular efficiency gains and cost savings. DZ BANK chose Google Cloud to accelerate its digital transformation because Google Cloud offers cutting-edge technology, top-tier expertise, […]

Generative AI is transforming application development across industries as developers build brand new user experiences that weren’t possible before. We’re already seeing customers like Linear build amazing new AI-powered applications with Google Cloud databases. Recently, we announced that you can now also use Cloud SQL for MySQL to perform similarity searches by indexing and searching […]

In 2023, the spotlight was on generative AI (gen AI) and how it is paving the way for a new category of AI that can create and co-innovate with humans to produce new content, such as text, code, images, and music. Gen AI capabilities are not only promising but extremely powerful, given that large language […]