Principles for designing a chargeback process As large organizations increase their cloud footprint, it becomes critical to ensure costs are being managed effectively. A good understanding of the cost of running each workload, and the value that workload brings to your business, allows organizations to have confidence in the efficiency of their cloud consumption — […]

Editor’s note: The post is part of a series highlighting our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. Background and Context A Customer Data Platform (CDP) provides a monolithic view of the customer by collecting data from various sources to provide accessibility across different systems. CDPs are becoming increasingly vital as companies look […]

Today we announce the Dataplex business glossary, now available in public preview. Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that provides a way to manage, monitor, and govern your distributed data at scale. Dataplex business glossary offers users a cloud-native way to maintain and manage their business terms and definitions, establishing consistent business language, improving trust […]

Building large-scale systems can be challenging. Systems that are predictable and reliable on a smaller scale can become chaotic and uncontrollable when scaled up, revealing the limits of your design, exhibiting suboptimal performance, or even not working. To mitigate these effects, it’s important to test large-scale systems before deploying them in production. But predicting system […]

Editor’s Note: Today’s blog features Yuichi Sato, Takayuki Niwa, and Tatsuo Mitani of menu corporation, a group company of Reazon Holdings. They explore how menu has used Google Maps Platform capabilities and integrated Mobility services into their food delivery applications, opening up a new frontier for the takeout and food delivery industry in Japan. “At […]