Cloud Computing

Developers, it’s time to take your skills to the ballpark! Are you ready to step out of the bleachers and onto the field where code collides with my (and America’s) favorite pastime? Get ready to swing for the fences at the Google Cloud X MLB Hackathon — powered by the groundbreaking Gemini family of models.

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that 2024 was a busy year for Google Cloud. From AI to Zero Trust, and everything in between, here’s a chronological recap of our top blogs of 2024, according to readership. You’ll probably see some favorites on this list, and discover a few that you

Spanner is Google’s always-on, virtually unlimited database that powers planet-scale applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos. Outside of Google, Spanner powers demanding workloads for household brands like Yahoo!, The Home Depot, Wayfair, and Pokémon Go. Today, Spanner handles over 4 billion queries per second at peak and more than 15 exabytes of data, with

Google Cloud’s Database Center provides a unified fleet management solution to help manage your databases at scale. In October 2024, Database Center was made available to all Google Cloud customers, with support for Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and Spanner engines. Today we are expanding Database Center’s capabilities with the addition of Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore databases

Today, generative AI is giving organizations new ways to process and analyze data, discover hidden insights, increase productivity and build new applications. However, data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and low-latency requirements can be a challenge. The need to keep sensitive data in certain locations, adhere to strict regulations, and respond swiftly can make it difficult to