2022 is officially upon us, and while 2021 had its fair share of challenges, we continue to be impressed by the technology investments made by our customers and partners and their ongoing migration of legacy systems to the cloud. Before diving into 2022, we thought it would be fun to do a quick roundup of […]
Effective software delivery — usually achieved via continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) — is a top priority for many product development teams. It’s easy to understand why: the 2021 State of DevOps report found that elite performers of software delivery deployed code much more frequently than low performers, with three times fewer change-related […]
We’re inviting Canadian cloud-native technology startups to apply for the second Google Cloud Accelerator Canada cohort. The intensive 10-week virtual bootcamp helps startups prepare for the next phase of growth and development in their journey. Throughout the pandemic, we saw just how important the role of cloud technology is in almost every sector. From healthcare […]
As a developer, you want to ensure that as you develop new features for your Dialogflow CX agent, you want to ensure that it passes a fixed number of Test Cases that you have marked as Golden Test Cases. Dialogflow CX not only provides you with a feature to manage a list of Test Cases […]
Communication services providers (CSPs) are experiencing a period of disruption. Overall revenue growth is decelerating and is projected to remain below 1 percent per year, following a trend that started even before the pandemic.1 At the same time, driven by the pandemic, data consumption in 2020 increased by 30 percent relative to 2019, with some […]
Organizations increasingly turn to AI to transform work processes, but this rapid adoption of models has amplified the need for explainable AI. Explaining AI helps us understand how and why models make predictions. For example, a financial institution might wish to use an AI model to automatically flag credit card transactions for fraudulent activity. While […]
Many companies, both in Digital Native and traditional regulated industries, such as Finance, Healthcare and Telecom, use their data and cloud technologies to solve complex problems, enable rapid ML experimentation, and bring new products to market. However, before using Cloud for data workloads, many in regulated industries weigh risk vs reward. The risks are mainly […]
Over the last five years, the November-December holiday shopping season has accounted for an average of 19 percent of annual retail sales, driven in large part by the surge in shopping over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In 2021, nearly 180 million Americans shopped between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, generating online sales of $8.9B […]
The Google Maps Platform Android SDK supports extensions for reactive programming, which helps you write code to handle asynchronous operations. Write reactive and responsive mapping applications with Google Maps Platform In mobile apps, asynchronous events can happen at any point in time: user touch events, waiting for network calls to complete, or receiving push notifications, […]
To better support equity and opportunity in higher education across the globe, we are proud to announce the expansion of Google Cloud research, teaching, and learning credits to eight countries in Africa: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia. With the recent additions of five countries in Latin America, Asia, and […]