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GCP – Take control of your supply chain with Artifact Registry
Dev: “I need that library’s functionality for the new feature!” Sec: “I can’t approve it if I don’t know that it’s safe to deploy!” Dev: “And when will we know?” Sec: “My queue is 11 weeks long….” The most contentious conversations between security and development teams often involve the topic of open source. Developers just want […]

GCP – Boost your cloud skills — play The Arcade with Google Cloud to earn points and prizes
Are you ready to grow your cloud skills and earn Google Cloud swag? Game on! Head over to The Arcade to participate in games that feature hands-on learning labs. Complete labs and you’ll earn digital badges. These badges award you points that you can use to redeem great Google Cloud prizes from the prize counter, […]

GCP – Google Cloud expands its partner ecosystem for media and entertainment companies at NAB 2023
Media and entertainment companies are at an evolutionary tipping point. Audiences today have more content choices at their fingertips than ever before. To meet and exceed viewer expectations, these companies must actively invest in how they create, produce, distribute, and monetize audience experiences. Partners are critical to this transformation. Google Cloud’s partner ecosystem contains a […]

GCP – Best practices and a tutorial for using Google Cloud Functions with MongoDB Atlas
Serverless applications are becoming increasingly popular among developers. They provide a cost-effective and efficient way to handle application logic and data storage. Two of the most popular technologies that can be used together to build serverless applications are Google Cloud Functions and MongoDB Atlas. Google Cloud Functions allows developers to run their code in response […]

GCP – Best practices of orchestrating Notebooks on Serverless Spark
Data Scientists process data and run machine learning workflows via various distributed processing frameworks and interactive collaborative computing platforms, such as Project Jupyter and Apache Spark. Orchestrating all these workflows is usually done via Apache Airflow. However, some challenges exist when running enterprise-grade Data Science and Machine Learning workloads in Public Cloud and at scale. […]

GCP – 5 reasons to run your media services on Google Cloud
Google Cloud helps customers in the media and entertainment industry to create and monetize innovative and personalized experiences for their global audiences using scalable, secure, and reliable content preparation, delivery, and recommendations. Underpinning the end-to-end media platform is Google Cloud’s Media CDN, enabling global reach for companies that want to bring together the best of […]

GCP – Running MySQL in Google Cloud
Apps need data storage. Amazing, right? A popular solution is MySQL. You may be experienced in running your own MySQL server and know the issues of resiliency that are involved with it and the difficulties of increasing storage, CPU, and RAM on a system in production. We’re familiar with those issues too, and have numerous […]

GCP – A responsible path to generative AI in healthcare
Healthcare breakthroughs change the world and bring hope to humanity through scientific rigor, human insight, and compassion. We believe AI can contribute to this, with thoughtful collaboration between researchers, healthcare organizations and the broader ecosystem. Today, we’re sharing exciting progress on these initiatives, with the announcement of limited access to Google’s medical large language model, […]

GCP – Timeseries Insights API for low latency anomaly detection at scale is now GA
Google Cloud is excited to announce the general availability of Timeseries Insights API, a powerful and efficient service for large-scale time-series anomaly detection in near real-time. Designed to help businesses gain insights and analyze data from various sources such as sensor readings, clicks, and news, the Timeseries Insights API allows businesses to process terabyte (TB) […]
GCP – Building geo-distributed applications on GKE with YugabyteDB
Often, it is challenging to choose a single cloud region for application deployment. Imagine deploying your app on the US West Coast, only to discover several months later that most of your users experience high latency because they are located on the US East Coast and in Europe. Alternatively, consider the scenario where user data […]