As a startup founder, you’re juggling a million things – building your team, securing funding, and perfecting your product. Google for Startups is here to help you navigate the chaos and accelerate your growth. We offer a variety of high-touch programs tailored to different stages and needs, including: Google for Startups Accelerators: Intensive 10-week programs […]
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Chatbots are one of the more common, early use cases for generative AI, particularly in retail organizations. To make them useful for shoppers, a chatbot needs to be contextually sensitive to a retailer’s product catalog, with the ability to respond to customer inquiries conversationally, perhaps suggesting alternatives and complementary outfits. To accomplish this, an instruction-tuned
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Austin Spiegel, CTO and co-founder of Sift, tells Ben and Ryan about his journey from studying film to working at SpaceX to founding Sift. Austin shares his perspective on software development in high-stakes environments, the challenges of hardware observability, and why paranoia is valuable in safety-critical engineering. Bonus story: Austin invited Elon Musk to speak
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This post was co-written with Ran Isenberg, Principal Software Architect at CyberArk and an AWS Serverless Hero. Serverless architectures enable agility and simplified cloud resource management. Organizations embracing serverless architectures build robust, distributed cloud applications. As organizations grow and the number of development teams increases, maintaining architectural consistency, standardization, and governance across projects becomes crucial.
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When developing a real-time architecture, there are two fundamental questions that you need to ask yourself in order to make the right technology choice: Freshness – how fast does the data need to be available? Query latency – how fast do you need to be able to retrieve the data once it is available? For
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If you leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) within your Google Cloud environment, you’ve likely encountered the confidence-shattering “IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED” error. It’s a common scenario: you’re convinced your IP address planning is flawless, your subnet design is future-proof, and then suddenly, your GKE cluster unexpectedly hits a scaling roadblock. You start to question your subnetting skills. How
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As your Google Cloud usage expands, managing and understanding your cloud costs can become increasingly complex. As you drive adoption of cloud FinOps in your organization, identifying exactly which teams, projects, or services are driving your expenses is essential. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the Google Cloud Cost Attribution Solution. This comprehensive suite of
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For several years, BigQuery native tables have supported enterprise-level data management capabilities such as ACID transactions, streaming ingestion, and automatic storage optimizations. Many BigQuery customers store data in data lakes using open-source file formats such as Apache Parquet and table formats such as Apache Iceberg. In 2022, we launched BigLake tables to allow customers to
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Operating a telecommunications network is more than just connecting phone calls, or helping people share funny videos online. Telecom networks are critical components of our society’s infrastructure. Telecom operators face a wide array of risks to the critical communication services they provide and the sensitive data they protect, from network outages, to criminally-motivated ransomware attacks,
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Ben Popper interviews Vladislav Voroninski, CEO of Helm.ai, about unsupervised learning and the future of AI in autonomous driving. They discuss GenAI’s role in bridging the gap between simulation and reality, the challenges of scaling autonomous driving systems, the commercial potential of partial autonomy, and why software is emerging as a key differentiator in vehicle
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