Cloud Computing

Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering

On today’s episode we chat with Crystal Xu, chief of staff at FSH Tech. She explains how she learned to build and deploy apps and services inside her company using Python and Java, without ever getting a traditional computer science education or training to write code. Instead, Xu works with GenAI systems like ChatGPT, Cursor, […]

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Introducing Valkey 8.0 on Memorystore: unmatched performance and fully open-source

Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Today, we’re thrilled to announce Valkey 8.0 on Memorystore in preview, making Google Cloud the first major cloud platform to offer Valkey 8.0 as a fully managed service. Building upon the launch of Memorystore for Valkey 7.2 in August 2024,

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AlloyDB supercharges PostgreSQL vector search with accuracy, speed, and 1B+ scale

In our 20 years of experience integrating AI into real-world applications an important theme emerges: the key to building enterprise gen AI applications is having a trustworthy, scalable data foundation that supports the scale and performance needs of the largest workloads. When you’re building a gen AI or search application, you need high-quality results in

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Bringing the best of Google Cloud to the Public Sector

Over the past year, the pace of innovation across industries and around the world has been extraordinary. At Google, we’re inspired by the public sector’s ingenuity and speed in adopting our AI and security innovations to achieve remarkable outcomes together. Since Google Cloud Next, we’ve launched more powerful versions of Gemini, rolled out Gemini Flash

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Announcing new Confidential Computing updates for even more hardware security options

Google Cloud is committed to ensuring that your data remains safe, secure, and firmly under your control. This begins with fortifying the very foundation of your compute infrastructure — your Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs) — with the power of Confidential Computing. Confidential Computing protects data while it’s being used and processed with a hardware-based

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Enhancing your gen AI use case with Vertex AI embeddings and task types

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful technique for enhancing large language models (LLMs) by grounding them in external knowledge sources. This blog post looks into a common challenge in RAG implementations: achieving high-quality semantic search. We’ll explore why traditional similarity search often falls short, and how new “task type” embeddings in Vertex AI offer

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Embracing gen AI with the latest Google Cloud databases innovations

Embracing gen AI means providing delightful AI-driven experiences to your users. As you take this journey, databases provide the foundation for building enterprise gen AI apps that are accurate, relevant and grounded in enterprise truth. At Google Cloud, we’re focused on helping you in three key ways. First, helping developers build intelligent apps with operational

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Aiven partnership enables multi-cloud, managed PostgreSQL with AlloyDB Omni

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses demand a database that delivers not only exceptional performance, but also embraces open standards and avoids vendor lock-in. Enter AlloyDB Omni, Google Cloud’s high-performance, 100% PostgreSQL-compatible downloadable database with cutting-edge capabilities that include a scalable online transaction processing (OLTP) architecture, near real-time analytics, and vector processing. And in

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