Cloud Computing

This post is cowritten by Julio Bando from Santander. Santander faced a significant technical challenge in managing an infrastructure that processes billions of daily transactions across more than 200 critical systems. The expansion into diverse financial services, including investment banking, wealth management, insurance, and payment solutions, had created unprecedented technological complexity, requiring a robust, agile,

The divide between data in operational databases and analytical data lakehouses is disappearing fast. As businesses increasingly adopt zero ETL lakehouse architectures, the challenge shifts from simply storing data in an open data format such as Apache Iceberg to serving it with the low-latency performance and speed that modern applications and AI agents require. Whether

With the dawn of the gen AI era, businesses are facing unprecedented opportunities for transformative products, demanding a strategic shift in their technology infrastructure. A few years ago, PayPal, a digital-native company serving hundreds of millions of customers, faced a significant challenge. After 25 years of success in expanding services and capabilities, we’d created complexity

Today, we’re entering a new and vibrant era of generative creativity with Nano Banana 2.   What’s new: Nano Banana 2 is our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model. It delivers Pro-level image generation and editing at the speed you expect from Flash — making the quality, reasoning, and world knowledge you loved about Nano Banana

This post is cowritten by Julius Blank from ProGlove. As software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms grow, balancing speed of innovation with strong security and tenant data isolation becomes critical. While the same AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) mechanisms secure both shared and dedicated environments, establishing a hard security boundary is often easier in an account-per-tenant model

Something has shifted in the developer community over the past year. AI agents have moved from “interesting research concept” to “thing my team is actually building.” The prototypes are working. The demos are impressive. And now comes the harder question: How do we ship this? That question turns out to be a multi-part one. Agents

Introduction Last week, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), Mandiant, and partners took action to disrupt a global espionage campaign targeting telecommunications and government organizations in dozens of nations across four continents. The threat actor, UNC2814, is a suspected People’s Republic of China (PRC)-nexus cyber espionage group that GTIG has tracked since 2017. This prolific, elusive