Every year, government agencies are responsible for distributing services and benefits that require processing billions of documents, images and forms. These documents are often expected to be manually transcribed into an electronic system error-free by a government employee to support time-sensitive tasks such as application intake, verification, enrollment, vendor management, and procurement.  While agencies want […]

Financial Services institutions (FSIs) are among the most heavily regulated enterprises, and often have explicit and detailed obligations to assess and audit activities they outsource. For FSIs, due diligence of a cloud provider’s controls is often an essential first step in adopting cloud services. At Google Cloud, we work closely with our customers, their regulators, […]

When designing cloud systems, a major consideration is reliability. As infrastructure architects, what do we want to guarantee to our customers, whether they’re internal or end users? How much time can we possibly allow our services to be down? How do we design services for resiliency?  A huge portion of reliability is dependent on availability […]

Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability.  It is designed for highly concurrent applications that read and update data, for example, to process payments or for online game play. To ensure the consistency across multiple concurrent transactions, Cloud Spanner uses a combination of shared […]

Organizations globally use Cloud Spanner, because of its unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% of availability. In particular, game companies, like Embark Studios use Spanner to help scale and solve the many challenges of a distributed system, such as concurrency and load balancing.  According to a recent PwC report, the global gaming industry […]

Earlier this year, Emma Haruka Iwao calculated π (pi) to 100 trillion digits, up from her previous record of 3.14 trillion in 2019. With the calculation complete, the Pi API has been updated so you can fetch the digits starting from anywhere in the sequence. This API, and the digits themselves, have been used to […]

Just over a year ago, we launched an open source solution, RAD Lab, to help spin up Google Cloud projects quickly and compliantly. RAD Lab serves as a Google Cloud-based sandbox environment to help technology and research teams advance quickly from research and development to production – all while incorporating feedback from the open source […]