Last fall, the Cloud Run team announced a new feature allowing operators to keep a container instance’s CPU fully-allocated outside of the standard request cycle. By default, Cloud Run instances are only allocated CPU during request processing as well as during container startup and shutdown as per the instance lifecycle. With this release, users can […]

With our experience working with financial services customers, we recently partnered with a large interdealer broker to co-innovate on the modernization of their core voice trading infrastructure. Their motivation was simple: they wanted traders to be able to work remotely, make it easy to onboard new locations with resilience and scale, and to enable new […]

We published another episode of “VM End to End,” which is a series of curated conversations between a “VM skeptic” and a “VM enthusiast”. Every episode, join Brian, Carter, and a special guest as they explore why VMs are some of Google’s most trusted and reliable offerings, and how VMs benefit companies operating at scale […]

So you made a mistake, you pushed an application change that accidentally caused a massive surge of data to hit your database. And now your instance has made happy use of the feature of automatically expanding your storage when you get close to running out of disk space. Most of the time, this is a […]