Traditionally, customers have relied on VMs to run their network-intensive applications. But for organizations who want to migrate network-intensive VM-based applications to Kubernetes and achieve the same level of performance, they need to add advanced container networking capabilities to their Pods, for example the ability for Pods to have multiple interfaces, and high-performance acceleration technology […]

Editor’s Note: Established in 2021, Character.ai is a pioneer in the design and development of open-ended conversational applications. The platform utilizes an advanced neural language model to generate human-like text responses and engage in contextually relevant conversations. Character.ai relies on Google Cloud’s portfolio of managed databases, including AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Spanner, as a solid […]

When a large language model (LLM) doesn’t have enough information or has no contextual knowledge of a topic, it is more likely to hallucinate and provide inaccurate or false responses. Developers are increasingly excited about generative AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) — an architecture pattern that combines LLMs with backend information retrieval from other […]

The Cloud Monitoring team believes in the power of the open source community and open source interfaces. Our stance is that you should be able to get the near-unlimited scalability of our metrics platform without giving up the platform neutrality of open source projects or the battle-tested breadth of resources created by the community. This […]

In recent years, there’s been a surge in the adoption of streaming analytics for a variety of use cases, for instance predictive maintenance to identify operational anomalies, and online gaming — creating player-centric games by optimizing experiences in real-time. At the same time, the rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) that are […]

Over 10 years ago we launched Earth Engine, Google’s cloud-based service for geospatial processing, to address the greatest sustainability challenges of our time. Since then, it has continually evolved alongside the growing urgency of environmental issues to include 90+ petabytes of analysis-ready geospatial data. With a wider range of options available for analyzing satellite data, […]

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, managing cloud costs efficiently has become crucial. To achieve this, organizations are increasingly turning to Cloud FinOps teams to optimize their cloud spend and help realize value from their investment in the cloud. Hence, building a successful cloud FinOps team involves careful planning and consideration. In this blog post, we […]

Editor’s note: Today’s blog post comes from Erik Forman, The Drivers Cooperative co-Founder. Erik shares how The Drivers Cooperative supports a living wage for drivers in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. to sustainably support paratransit passengers who are reliant on rides to get to their life-critical appointments using Google Maps Platform. […]

Cloud Networking is exciting, it is invisible, and yet without it nothing would communicate. If you need a high-level overview of the core services in Google Cloud, then the newly created Tour Of Cloud Networking lab is for you. Let’s take a look at this informational lab. The scale The lab introduces you to Google’s […]

The FDA has a history of using real world evidence (RWE) as an integral component of the drug approval process. Moreover, RWE can mitigate the need for placebos in some clinical trials. The clinical records that make RWE evidence useful, however, often reside in unstructured formats, such as doctor’s notes, and must be “abstracted” into […]