In today’s modern development world, a microservices-based architecture is a go-to pattern for developing applications that are independent, flexible, modular, and language-neutral, and offers significant agility benefits over a monolithic architecture. A great example of an organization that has made this transition is L.L.Bean, where its legacy on-premises system had been constraining the company’s ability […]

If you’re self-managing relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQL Server, you may be thinking about the pros and cons of cloud-based database services. Regardless of whether you’re running your databases on premises or in the cloud, self-managed databases can be inefficient and expensive, requiring significant effort around patching, hardware maintenance, backups, and tuning. […]

If you’re familiar with the Medicare/Medicaid market, you’ve probably heard of the HEDIS score: the Health Effectiveness Data and Information Set. It’s a standard created by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and scores the quality of Medicare and Medicaid plans by measuring the effectiveness and utilization of plan benefits, access to care, and […]

The excitement at Next ‘22 this year was inescapable.  We celebrated a number of exciting announcements and wins that show where the cloud is heading, and what that means for our partners and customers.  As we close out 2022 and finalize our plans for 2023, I wanted to provide a perspective on the most important […]

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: AI will be the primary driver for moving to a 4-day work week Enterprise use of artificial intelligence (AI) has […]

While great strides have been made toward providing communities greater access to information technology, a digital accessibility gap still remains. In Los Angeles County, it is estimated that 416,000 households lack home internet service and 265,000 households are without a home computer. Notably, low-income neighborhoods and populations that are predominantly Black and Latinx are amongst some of the most […]

If you want to create a serverless service, you’ll want to check out Cloud Build.  Cloud Build is a popular Google Cloud service that allows you to execute your builds on Google Cloud. Cloud Build can import source code from various repositories or cloud storage spaces, execute a build to your specifications, and produce artifacts […]