Apache Iceberg is a popular open source table format for customers looking to build data lakes. It provides many features found in enterprise data warehouses, such as transactional DML, time travel, schema evolution, and advanced metadata that unlocks performance optimization. Iceberg’s open specification allows customers to run multiple query engines on a single copy of […]

With the weekend approaching I’m looking forward to some browsing at the farmers’ market, some baking at home with my family, and a ton of listening to podcasts. Google’s got you covered if you want some more tech content, as we’ve been expanding the content on our Cloud podcast page with two exciting new series […]

gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It plays a critical role in efficiently connecting microservices in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking, authentication and other cross-cutting features. It may also be applied in the last […]

Great customer service leads to happy, engaged customers and directly impacts revenue growth, customer loyalty and brand reputation. Your agents help your customers everyday, ChromeOS helps your agents stay productive and engaged at work.   With customer satisfaction still heavily reliant on time to resolution,productivity is paramount for both agent engagement and customer delight.  But with […]

Cloud-based computing is one of the most important developments in the digital economy in the last decade. It has reduced costs, improved security, simplified interoperability, and delivered services with unprecedented reach. It has also laid the foundation for entirely new companies. Name any fast-growing business today—Spotify, Revolut, Snap, etc.—and it has likely benefited from the […]