Cloud Computing

Gemini for Government: Unlocking the next wave of public sector innovation

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The public sector has entered a new era of innovation, driven by the rise of intelligent agents. In this transformative period, AI-powered agents are a force multiplier for every employee – amplifying human capacity and freeing up time previously spent on administrative tasks. This new era is all about empowering employees and teams to apply […]

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Improving workflow orchestration with Apache Airflow 3.1 in Cloud Composer

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In a world of fragmented data stacks, you need workflow orchestration that is innovative, portable, and extensible. Cloud Composer, our fully managed data and AI/ML workflow orchestration service, relies on Apache Airflow to provide a universal control plane. And today, we’re excited to share that Cloud Composer now supports Airflow 3.1 in preview. Released in

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Monitoring Google ADK agentic applications with Datadog LLM Observability

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Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) gives you the building blocks to create powerful agentic systems. These multi-step agents can plan, loop, collaborate, and call tools dynamically to solve problems on their own. However, this flexibility also makes them unpredictable, leading to potential issues like incomplete outputs, unexpected costs, and security risks. To help you manage

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How Fastweb + Vodafone reimagined data workflows with Spanner & BigQuery

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Editor’s note: Fastweb + Vodafone, a leading telecommunications provider in Italy, created its Customer 360 platform to support faster and more personalized customer experiences across channels. By rebuilding serving layers and governance with Google Cloud services like Spanner, BigQuery, and Gemini, the company simplified its architecture and introduced AI-assisted engineering workflows. Fastweb + Vodafone now

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Introducing managed connection pooling in AlloyDB — scale further, connect faster

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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully managed database service engineered for demanding enterprise workloads, blending the familiarity and robustness of PostgreSQL with Google Cloud’s advanced technology for exceptional performance, scalability, and high availability.  However, as applications grow and user loads intensify, another critical factor comes into play: efficiently managing database connections. Inefficient connection handling can

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Scaling WideEP Mixture-of-Experts inference with Google Cloud A4X (GB200) and NVIDIA Dynamo

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As organizations transition from standard LLMs to massive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures like DeepSeek-R1, the primary constraint has shifted from raw compute density to communication latency and memory bandwidth. Today, we’re releasing two new validated recipes designed to help customers overcome the infrastructure bottlenecks of the agentic AI era. These new recipes provide clear steps to

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