The Places API provides you with business information, ratings, reviews and more for over 200 million businesses and places around the world. Starting today, we’re starting to roll out more attributes that reflect some of the most highly-requested information about places. These Place details and attributes play an important role in keeping existing customers informed, […]

Editor’s note: B4A, a Brazilian company that runs a beauty e-commerce platform, recently migrated their database to AlloyDB and saw performance accelerate by 90 percent across their queries. Now the company is looking for further gains in management and ease of use by migrating to other fully managed database solutions from Google. B4A is a […]

Incumbent financial services institutions (FSIs) are currently in the midst of a generational shift in enterprise technology toward cloud. These institutions are making a bet that cloud can help accelerate their digital transformation journey and give them the speed, agility, and scalability needed to compete with fintech. A foundational piece of this transition is around […]

Editor’s note: OVO Energy was founded in 2009 as an energy retailer that redesigned the energy experience to be fair, simple and green for consumers. Inspired by Google’s carbon-aware load shifting to data centers with the cleanest energy, OVO Energy implemented its own solution using Cloud Composer and Cloud Run Jobs. Here Jack Lockyer-Stevens, Software […]

In a startup, you need to get to the MVP fast, gather feedback from early adopters, and iterate in a quick cycle. Anything that takes time away from developing and iterating on features delays the launch and that’s a serious problem when time-to-market is crucial.  Google Cloud offers products that can help you to build […]