Vimeo builds a fully responsive video platform on Google Cloud
Vimeo is the world’s leading video software solution, powering hundreds of thousands of new uploads every day and billions of views. At our scale, it’s paramount that we retain a seamless user experience across all of the videos hosted, shared, and viewed on Google’s platform. With…
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…
Industry-leading reliability, global scale & open standards with Google Cloud Databases
In today’s digital landscape, consumers expect near-instant feats of speed and personalized service packaged up as easy-to-use apps. To them, the sky’s the limit when it comes to what’s possible from technology experiences. But meeting (and ideally, exceeding) their expectations is often a heavy lift…
Confidential VMs – a security breakthrough for medical device software
Delivering better healthcare is increasingly dependent on technology. Recently, there has been movement towards self-managed healthcare via remote technology – a trend that accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Examples of this are initiatives that directly empower consumers to obtain preventive therapies without a physician’s prescription. AstraZeneca,…
It’s official—Google Distributed Cloud Edge is generally available
Last year, Google announced Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a portfolio of fully managed hardware and software that allows organizations to run workloads at the edge. Today, Google are excited to announce the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud Edge, including Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliances. GDC Edge empowers…
Regain Cloud SQL disk space with Database Migration Service
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…
Save big by temporarily suspending unneeded Compute Engine VMs
One of the best aspects of the cloud is the ability to purchase and use only what you need. This enables you to take advantage of modern and performant computing while fine tuning cost optimization. With Suspend/Resume, Generally Available today, you have even more…
Meet AI’s multitool: Vector embeddings
Embeddings are one of the most versatile techniques in machine learning, and a critical tool every ML engineer should have in their toolbelt. It’s a shame, then, that so few of us understand what they are and what they’re good for! The problem, perhaps, is…
Using GeoJSON in BigQuery for geospatial analytics
The first step in most analytical workloads is to ingest the data that you need for your analysis into your data warehouse. For geospatial analysis involving point, line, or polygon data, ingesting data can be complex because geospatial data comes in myriad data formats. Two…
How cloud is shaping the future of the telecom customer experience
Telecom operators and communications service providers (CSPs) are elevating customer experiences (CX) across the customer lifecycle. Today’s digital customers’ expectations, needs, usage behaviors and choices are growing and evolving exponentially. Therefore, it is critical to deliver superior and personalized digital customer experiences at each customer…