Cloud Computing

Registration now open: Our no-cost, generative AI training and certification program for veterans

Growing up in a Navy family instilled a strong sense of purpose in me. My father’s remarkable 42 years of naval service not only shaped my values, but inspired me to join the Navy myself. Today, as the leader of Google Public Sector, I’m honored to continue that tradition of service in support of our […]

Registration now open: Our no-cost, generative AI training and certification program for veterans Read More »

Driving for the Horizon: New Android Automotive solution on cloud offers faster builds

The automotive industry is in the midst of a profound transformation, accelerating towards an era of software-defined vehicles (SDVs). This shift, however, presents significant challenges for manufacturers and suppliers alike. Their priority is making great vehicles, not great software, though the latter now contributes — and is increasingly a necessity — to achieve the former.

Driving for the Horizon: New Android Automotive solution on cloud offers faster builds Read More »

Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine

Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers, with an annual crude steel capacity exceeding 35 millions tons. With such a large and global output, we needed a way to improve asset availability, product quality, operational safety, and environmental monitoring. By centralizing data from diverse sources and implementing advanced analytics with Google Cloud,

Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine Read More »

Calling all devs: Join the GKE Turns 10 Hackathon and build with agentic AI

For ten years, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has been at the forefront of innovation, powering everything from microservices to cloud-native AI and edge computing. To honor this special birthday, we’re challenging you to catapult your microservices into the future with cutting-edge agentic AI. Are you ready to celebrate? Build AI Agents on GKE in the

Calling all devs: Join the GKE Turns 10 Hackathon and build with agentic AI Read More »

Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark

Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging failures and performance bottlenecks in distributed systems remains a universal challenge. Manually troubleshooting a Spark job requires piecing together clues from disparate sources

Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark Read More »

Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark

Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging failures and performance bottlenecks in distributed systems remains a universal challenge. Manually troubleshooting a Spark job requires piecing together clues from disparate sources

Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark Read More »

Save more with expanded coverage for Compute Flex CUDs

We’re excited to announce an expansion to our Compute Flexible Committed Use Discounts (Flex CUDs), providing you with greater flexibility across your cloud environment. Your spend commitments now stretch further and cover a wider array of Google Cloud services and VM families, translating into greater savings for your workloads. Flex CUDs are spend-based commitments that

Save more with expanded coverage for Compute Flex CUDs Read More »

Kotlin is more than just the Android house language

Ryan welcomes Jeffrey van Gogh, Director of Engineering, Android Developer Experience, at Google and board member of the Kotlin Foundation. They discuss the evolution of the Kotlin language from JVM to multiplatform, how their governance board works with the community to stop breaking changes, and the intricacies of Kotlin’s multiplatform capabilities beyond just Android.

Kotlin is more than just the Android house language Read More »

Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding

In Episode #6 of the Agent Factory podcast, Vlad Kolesnikov and I were joined by Keith Ballinger, VP and General Manager at Google Cloud, for a deep dive into the transformative future of software development with AI. We explore how AI agents are reshaping the developer’s role and boosting team productivity. This post guides you

Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding Read More »

How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)

Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers, Baseten has just passed a significant milestone.  By leveraging the latest Google Cloud A4 virtual machines (VMs) based on NVIDIA Blackwell, and

How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too) Read More »