Cloud Computing

Founders share five takeaways from the Google Cloud Startup Summit

We recently hosted our annual Google Cloud Startup Summit, and we were thrilled to showcase a wide range of AI startups leveraging Google Cloud, including Higgsfield AI, Click Therapeutics, Baseten, LiveX AI, Reve AI, and Vellum. As a former co-founder and venture capitalist, I was inspired by the remarkable solutions these startups are developing and […]

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How Low Can You Go? An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends

Written by: Casey Charrier, Robert Weiner Mandiant analyzed 138 vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2023 and that we tracked as exploited in the wild. Consistent with past analyses, the majority (97) of these vulnerabilities were exploited as zero-days (vulnerabilities exploited before patches are made available, excluding end-of-life technologies). Forty-one vulnerabilities were exploited as n-days (vulnerabilities

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A new era of partnership: Unveiling Google Public Sector’s enhanced Partner Program

Google Public Sector is excited today to launch its enhanced Partner Program, designed to empower partners to achieve success in the public sector market. Unveiled at Public Sector Partner Connect 2024, this enhanced program – under the Partner Advantage Program umbrella – introduces several new initiatives focused on accelerating growth, fostering deeper collaboration, and maximizing

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Get up to 100x query performance improvement with BigQuery history-based optimizations

When looking for insights, users leave no stone unturned, peppering the data warehouse with a variety of queries to find the answers to their questions. Some of those queries consume a lot of computational resources — and many of those queries closely resemble one another. To further speed up query execution, we developed BigQuery history-based

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A founder’s guide to Google for Startups programs

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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Fine-tuning Gemma, the journey from beginning to end

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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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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