Earlier this month, SIGOPS announced that it had selected the paper, “Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database” for the 2022 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, an honor bestowed on the most influential Operating Systems papers published by the organization. In giving this award, the award committee stated: “Spanner showed how to balance the requirements of consistency, availability, […]

Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Auto Trader UK, the UK and Ireland’s largest online automotive marketplace, about how BigQuery’s robust performance has become the data engine powering real-time inventory and pricing information across the entire organization.  Auto Trader UK has spent nearly 40 years perfecting our craft of connecting buyers and sellers of new […]

You are what you eat. We’ve all been told this, but the truth is what we eat is often more complex than we are – genetically at least. Take a grain of rice. The plant that produces rice has 40,000 to 50,000 genes, double that of humans, yet we know far more about the composition […]

Regulatory Surveillance of Trading Activity with Google Cloud The purpose of regulatory surveillance is to verify market fairness and protect against unethical trading behavior. Since regulatory reporting requirements have local differences, global financial institutions often need to operate in a large number of jurisdictions, meet specific variations of the local regulations of each, conduct internal […]

Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Daniel Zeiger, Director of Information Technology for Georgia Public Library Service in Atlanta. Georgia Public Library Service provides consulting services and technical assistance to libraries, such as resource sharing, outreach support, and facilities planning for Georgia’s 407 public libraries, as well as scalable library technology and services, grant administration, […]

Apigee, Google Cloud’s native API management offering, allows you to build, manage, secure, monitor and operate APIs — for any use case, environment, or scale. It does so by providing a layer of abstraction between internal and external APIs, empowering developers and API teams to do really interesting things. Figure 1: Apigee use case in […]

For several decades, before the rise of cloud computing upended the way we think about databases and applications, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases were a mainstay of business application architectures. But today, as you map out your cloud journey, you’re probably reevaluating your technology choices in light of the cloud’s vast possibilities and current […]

Electric motors in everything from pool pumps and gate motors to the large industrial fans and pumps consume approximately 50% of the world’s generated electricity. Optimizing old equipment with more efficient engineering has the potential to deliver significant energy savings. But a big challenge remains: how do you increase the energy efficiency of large industrial […]