Pub/Sub’s ingestion of data into BigQuery can be critical to making your latest business data immediately available for analysis. Until today, you had to create intermediate Dataflow jobs before your data could be ingested into BigQuery with the proper schema. While Dataflow pipelines (including ones built with Dataflow Templates) get the job done well, sometimes […]

After a successful certification beta, we’re excited to share that the Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification is now generally available.  This new certification allows you to showcase your ability to manage databases that power the world’s most demanding workloads. Traditional data management roles have evolved and now call for elevated cloud data management expertise, making […]

Student mental health is an important topic for institutions and the pandemic made this even more paramount. According to a recent CDC study, the less connected a student is to individuals at their schools, the more likely they are to experience mental health challenges. However, these connections don’t need to be solely physical to be beneficial. […]

This blog presents an open-source solution to heterogeneous graph sub-sampling at scale using Google Cloud Dataflow (Dataflow). Dataflow is Google’s publicly available, fully managed environment for running large scale Apache Beam compute pipelines. Dataflow provides monitoring and observability out of the box and is routinely used to scale production systems to easily handle extreme datasets. […]

Preventing data breaches is an important priority when creating and managing database environments. Ensuring user and application passwords meet high security standards is crucial for reducing risk and helping to achieve compliance with best practices and regulatory standards. To address these concerns, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Local Users Password Validation […]

Welcome to this month’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. Starting with this issue, we’re going to add even more top-of-mind content based on the hot topics we see emerge across the industry and with our customers, globally.  Today, we’re focusing on the evolving relationship between an organization’s boardroom and its cybersecurity practice, especially in the context of […]