We’re at a pivotal moment in systems design. Demand for computing is growing at insatiable rates. At the same time, the slowing of Moore’s law means that improvements to CPU performance, power consumption, memory and storage cost efficiencies have all plateaued. These headwinds are further exacerbated by new challenges in reliability, and security.  At Google, […]

As a developer, DevOps engineer or a database administrator, you have to typically deal with database lock issues. Often, rows locked by queries cause lags and can slow down applications resulting in poor user experience. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of lock insights and transaction insights for Cloud Spanner that provide a […]

In-memory databases are a critical component that deliver the lowest possible latency for your users who might be adding items to online shopping carts, getting personalized content recommendations, or checking their latest account balances. Memorystore makes it easy for developers building these types of applications on Google Cloud to leverage the speed and powerful capabilities […]

Cloud Bigtable is a low-latency, high-throughput NoSQL database. With NoSQL, you want to design a schema that can scale and adapt to your business growth. When working with large sets of data in the real world, it’s possible there will be access pattern outliers with significantly more activity that requires a bit more planning. In […]

Editor’s notes: In this guest blog, we have the pleasure of inviting Sanjay Chaudhary, VP, Product Management at Exabeam to share his experiences and learnings of building real-time security insights and actions products capabilities using Google Cloud. Exabeam is a cybersecurity leader in SIEM and security analytics for organizations worldwide.  Today’s datasphere is opening a […]

Organizations continue to adopt the public cloud to deliver better business and IT outcomes1. However, migration — and modernization — is a complex, multifaceted challenge which involves understanding the current state of infrastructure and applications to determine what the future state looks like and what it would take to get to the future state with […]

Google Workspace is used by more than three billion users, including companies with the strictest security and availability requirements. Enterprises choose Workspace to stay connected, share ideas, get more done together, and safely work from wherever they are. Now, with the integration of Google Workspace and SAP S/4HANA ERP — the world’s most well-known ERP […]

In recent years, the application monitoring landscape has exploded with instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and backends for storage and visualization. But a major friction point is still the investment required to instrument applications with these libraries, and libraries are often tied to a small set of telemetry backends.  The OpenTelemetry project has tried to address these […]

Today’s post comes from Taichirou Tokumori, Software Development Engineer, CBcloud, and explores how CBcloud uses Google Maps Platform to help Japan’s delivery drivers become more efficient and improve their working conditions. In an age of remote work, delivery drivers face an increasing burden due to the soaring demand of online shopping. At CBcloud, our mission […]