Aviation and accommodation play a big role in impacting the tourism economy, but analysis of recent data also highlights tourism’s impact on other sectors, from financial services to healthcare, to retail and transportation.  With travel recovery in full swing post pandemic, Google search queries related to “travel insurance” and “medical tourism” in Thailand have increased […]

Today, we are putting the power of Google’s insights and intelligence in the hands of risk, fraud, and security teams everywhere. We are pleased to announce the general availability of reCAPTCHA Enterprise Fraud Prevention, a new product that uses Google’s own fraud models, machine learning, and intelligence from protecting more than 6 million websites to […]

Cloud SQL is excited to announce support for PostgreSQL 15. PostgreSQL 15 has many new and valuable enhancements and we thought it would be great to deep dive into these for our users. One can broadly categorize the improvements into five areas: Security Developer experience Performance Tooling Observability Let’s deep dive. Security  Schema `public` is […]

As part of our ongoing series on cost management for observability data in Google Cloud, we’re going to share four steps for getting the most out of your logs while on a budget. While we’ll focus on optimizing your costs within Google Cloud, we’ve found that this works with customers with infrastructure and logs on […]

From time to time, I read and participate in conversations about performance tests comparing AlloyDB with different Postgres deployments on premises and in other cloud environments. In some cases, it sounds similar to the “Sensible Fiesta Test” by Jeremy Clarson in the 12th season of Top Gear. When asked the question “Can I afford it?” […]

If you’re an IT or security professional, you’re probably very familiar with the advantages of the browser when it comes to your tech stack. It allows your workforce to get more done, making it easier than ever to be productive. But cloud computing, an increase in hybrid work and re-emerging BYOD scenarios can introduce unique […]