How to get started with new Gemini model capabilities for Places API
Google Cloud announced the release of the new Gemini model capabilities for the Places API. In addition to using rich information about more than 250 million businesses and places–like ratings, reviews and business hours–developers will also be able to show helpful, generative AI summaries of places…
Introducing Shadow API detection for your Google Cloud environments
Enterprises operate a large and growing number of APIs — more than 200 on average — each a potential front door to sensitive data. Even more challenging can be figuring out which of these APIs are not actively managed “shadow APIs”. Born from well-intended development initiatives and…
Announcing API abuse detection powered by machine learning
API security incidents are increasingly common and disruptive. With the growth of API traffic, enterprises across the world are also experiencing an uptick in malicious API attacks, making API security a heightened priority. According to our latest API Security Research Report, 50% of organizations surveyed have …
Twitter: gaining insights from Tweets with an API for Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Although Twitter has long been considered a treasure trove of data, the task of analyzing Tweets in order to understand what’s happening in the world, what people are talking about right now, and how this information can support business use cases has historically…
Calling Google APIs from serverless (Part I: Cloud APIs)
Introduction As Google Cloud users, you may already be familiar with Google App Engine, Cloud Functions, or Cloud Run, our serverless platforms allowing technical practitioners to focus on building solutions, not what they run on. Google as a whole, has many divisions which provide developer tools beyond these platforms, so a common…
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API now supports custom voices
With the rise of digital assistants and conversational interfaces, people have grown accustomed to hearing and speaking to synthetic voices. But what do those voices sound like? Often, pretty repetitive. Google are all familiar with the Google Assistant voice, for example. That’s why Google are…
Choosing the Right Network Architecture for Your Apigee-fueled APIs
API gateways are a critical component of a modern architecture. Apigee X is Google Cloud’s API management platform. It also allows users of the legacy Apigee Edge product to leverage Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) products and features, like Cloud Armor and Load Balancers. With these new security and availability advantages come a new…
Apigee 2021: A Year of Innovations
Apigee is committed to continually innovating new capabilities and solutions for our customers, and 2021 saw new product launches, partnerships, and best practices for managing your expanding range of business-critical use cases. Here are some of our favorite stories from 2021. Spotting the trends in APIs…