We’re always looking for ways to improve your Google Maps Platform development experience on Android, so  we’ve been working on an updated renderer for the Maps SDK for Android to give you access to more features and better performance. Thanks to those developers  who opted in to use our updated renderer back in October 2021. […]

More and more organizations are building applications on Cloud Run, a fully managed compute platform that lets you run containerized applications on top of Google’s infrastructure. Think web applications, real-time dashboards, APIs, microservices, batch data processing, testing and monitoring tools, data science inference models, and more. Today, we’re excited to announce that it’s easier than […]

Cloud Tasks is a fully-managed service that manages the execution, dispatch, and asynchronous delivery of a large number of tasks to App Engine or any arbitrary HTTP endpoint. You can also use a Cloud Tasks queue to buffer requests between services for more robust intra-service communication.   Cloud Tasks introduces two new features, the new queue-level […]

A Load balancer is one of the most critical components of cloud network deployments.  Over the years, this feature has become fundamental to most networking services. One of the primary use-case for load balancers is to provide redundancy and reliability for applications by sharing traffic across multiple back-ends.  A load balancer distributes user traffic across […]

Exposing your applications to the internet is a common requirement for enterprises. In this article we would be looking at internet facing application delivery. This references information from the document Networking for internet-facing applications: Reference architecture which should be read for more detail. Internet facing applications  Any application meant to be used by people on […]

Editor’s note: This blog is part of a series called Meet the Google Cloud Data Champions, a series celebrating the people behind data- and AI-driven transformations. Each blog features a champion’s career journey, lessons learned, advice they would give other leaders, and more. This story features Scott Wong, VP of Platform Engineering at Credit Karma, […]

TL;DR: We’re bringing together multiple Google Cloud migration programs under the revamped Rapid Migration Program, or RaMP. Under the leadership of our new VP of Migrations Stephen Orban, RaMP is designed to give customers and partners everything they need to evaluate and execute large-scale migrations to Google Cloud, including how to assess people, process, and […]