Cloud Computing

The promise of platform engineering is to accelerate software delivery by empowering developers with self-service capabilities. However, this must be balanced with security, compliance, and operational stability, and for this, you need robust controls. But all too frequently, people talk about “guardrails” — a term whose meaning is often ambiguous, leading to confusion, or worse, […]

Database Center is an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that can help you identify and address security risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues for Google Cloud databases including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore. Today, we are excited to announce that Database Center can now  monitor your self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server

Managing large model artifacts is a common bottleneck in MLOps. Baking models into container images leads to slow, monolithic deployments, and downloading them at startup introduces significant delays. This guide explores a better way: decoupling your models from your code by hosting them in Cloud Storage and accessing them efficiently from GKE and Cloud Run.

In today’s hyper-competitive telecommunications landscape, understanding and maximizing the Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) metric isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s a strategic imperative. For Deutsche Telekom, accurate CLV calculations are the bedrock of informed decisions, driving crucial initiatives in customer acquisition, retention, and targeted marketing campaigns. The ability to predict and influence long-term customer relationships directly

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2025. Today, our Office of the CISO’s Bob Mechler and Anton Chuvakin dive into the key trends and evolving threats that we tracked in our just-published Cloud Threat Horizons report. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google

Keeta Network is a layer‑1 blockchain that unifies transactions across different blockchains and payment systems, eliminating the need for costly intermediaries, reducing fees, and enabling near‑instant settlements. By facilitating cross‑chain transactions and interoperability with existing payment systems, Keeta bridges the gap between cryptocurrencies and fiat, enabling a secure, efficient, and compliant global financial ecosystem. Founded

This post is co-written with Hyeonho Kim, Jinhyeong Seo and Minjae Kwon from Karrot. Karrot is Korea’s leading local community and a service centered on all possible connections in the neighborhood. Beyond simple flea markets, it strengthens connections between neighbors, local stores, and public institutions, and creates a warm and active neighborhood as its core

This post is co-written with Hyeonho Kim, Jinhyeong Seo and Minjae Kwon from Karrot. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how Karrot developed a new feature platform, which consists of three main components: feature serving, a stream ingestion pipeline, and a batch ingestion pipeline. We discussed their requirements, the solution architecture, and feature