To all Apache Beam and Dataflow users: If you’ve experimented with Beam, prototyped a pipeline, or verified assumptions about a dataset, you might have used Beam Notebooks or other interactive alternatives such as Google Colab or Jupyter Notebooks. You might also have noticed a gap between running a small prototype pipeline in a notebook and […]

Flexera’sState of the Cloud Report 2022 pointed out that significant cloud spending is wasted, a major issue that is getting more critical as cloud costs continue to rise. In the current macroeconomic conditions, companies focus on identifying ways to reduce spending. To  effectively do that, we need to understand the pricing model. We can then […]

Frequently, your application may need to count the number of matches for a given query. For example, if you’re developing a social application, you may need to count the number of friends an individual has.  With today’s Preview launch of count(), you can easily and cost-efficiently perform a count() directly in Firestore. It’s accessible via […]

BigQuery is increasingly becoming the landing zone of choice for many customers’ data in Google cloud. BigQuery is designed to provide high data durability. Data is written synchronously to 2 availability zones and within these zones, data is written using erasure encoding to make sure data can be recovered from multiple disk failures. As of […]

Today, we are excited to announce that the new Google Cloud region in Israel is open.  We’ll be celebrating the launch at an event in Tel Aviv on November 9 — register to join us.   Israel is known as the startup nation, and has long been a hub of technology innovation for startups and Google […]