Cloud Computing

What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability

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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How CyberArk is streamlining serverless governance by codifying architectural blueprints

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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GKE and the dreaded IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED error: Understanding the culprit

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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Gain control of your Google Cloud costs: Introducing the Cost Attribution Solution

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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BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg: optimized storage for the open lakehouse

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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How Google Cloud supports telecom security and compliance

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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Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations

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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Project Shield expands free DDoS protection to even more organizations and nonprofits

Project Shield has helped news, human rights, and elections-related organizations defend against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks since 2013 as part of Google’s commitment to keep online content universally accessible. The solution has helped keep election resources online, supported news reporting during pivotal geopolitical events, and helped governments during times of urgency. We are

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Better together: BigQuery and Spanner expand operational insights with external datasets

Data analysts have traditionally struggled to analyze data across different databases. Because of data silos, they need to copy data from transactional databases into analytical data stores using ETL processes. BigQuery made the problem a little easier to solve if you have data in Spanner and BigQuery. Using the EXTERNAL_QUERY table-valued function (TVF), you could 

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