Google Cloud Operations Suite provides support for hundreds of metrics across various services. In addition to thesepredefined metrics that are available, you can always report custom metrics from your applications. One of the common requests that I have heard from organizations is to look for patterns of text in their application logs and report data […]

Google Cloud Firewall is a scalable, built-in service with advanced protection capabilities that helps enhance and simplify security posture, and implement zero trust networking, for cloud workloads. Its fully-distributed architecture provides micro-segmentation and granular control independent of network structure.  Our unique architectural approach offers several advantages over the network instance approach, including a simplified network […]

APIs power every digital interaction we experience today – from ordering your favorite coffee on your mobile device, to checking the live scores on your sports app, to even reading this blog on your device. With the growing surface of interactions powered by APIs, even the surface area for a potential attack is increasing. Google […]

Introduction In our discussions with technology leaders from around the world for – The Digital Crunch Time: 2022 State of APIs and Applications – two themes emerged  #1 Cloud — and hybrid cloud specifically — is becoming a driving factor of success with 59% of respondents saying they were looking to increase their hybrid cloud […]

Competing and staying relevant in an economy that has almost become digital-first overnight, required organizations to rethink their API strategy, and in many cases, a hybrid cloud approach. As we uncovered in our 2022 research into API usage, 59% of respondents were planning to increase their hybrid cloud adoption in the next 12 months. But […]

PCI DSS is a set of network security and business best practices guidelines adopted by the PCI Security Standards Council to establish a “minimum security standard” to protect customers’ payment card information. Google Cloud undergoes a third-party audit to certify individual products against the PCI DSS at least annually, and customers can build off of […]

Introduction Developing in SQL poses significant problems when compared to other languages and frameworks.  It’s not easy to reuse statements across different scripts, there’s no way to write tests to ensure data consistency, and dependency management requires external software solutions.  Developers will typically write thousands of lines of SQL to ensure data processing occurs in […]