Cloud Computing

Introduction Etsy, a leading ecommerce marketplace for handmade, vintage, and unique items has a passion for delivering innovative and seamless experiences for customers. Like many fast growing companies, Etsy needed to scale their teams, technologies, and tools to keep pace with their business growth. Indeed, between 2012 and 2021, their gross merchandise sales increased over […]

As generative AI experiences explosive growth fueled by advancements in LLMs (Large Language Models), access to open models is more critical than ever for developers. Open models are publicly available pre-trained foundational LLMs. Platforms like Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, Kaggle and Hugging Face already provide easy access to open models to data scientists, ML engineers,

With the technology advances of our cloud-first databases, Google Cloud has become the go-to platform for companies looking to run complex, real-time, business-critical workloads. Don’t just take our word for it. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Google was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024 report. We believe this

We are announcing support for JSON structured logging for the .NET managed runtime. This makes the .NET managed runtime compatible with the previously announced logging controls for AWS Lambda, allowing you to toggle logging format and log levels using the Lambda API. Formatting log messages as JSON documents makes it easier to search, filter, and

Document preprocessing is a common hurdle when building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. It often requires Python skills and external libraries to parse documents like PDFs into manageable chunks that can be used to generate embeddings. In this blog, we look at new capabilities within BigQuery and Document AI that simplify this process, and take you

Application Load Balancers are essential for reliable web application delivery on Google Cloud. But while Google Cloud’s load balancers offer extensive customization, some situations demand even greater programmability.  We recently announced Service Extensions plugins for Application Load Balancers in Preview. Now you can run your own custom code directly in the request/response path in a

The rise of Natural Language Processing (NLP) combined with traditional Structured Query Language (SQL) has given rise to an exciting new technology known as Natural Language to SQL, or NL2SQL, which translates questions phrased in everyday human language into structured SQL queries. Not surprisingly, the technology has tremendous potential to transform the way we interact

Imagine you unlocked your phone and all you saw was a blank glowing screen in a happy shade of pink, or a family photo, and nothing else.  No apps, no window, no pop-ups. You simply tap the screen and then speak a request or type something in, and almost instantly you’ve drafted an email or