Cloud Computing

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.

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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

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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

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How to Build Highly Available Multi-regional Services with Cloud Run

Ever worry about your applications going down just when you need them most? The talk at Cloud Next 2025, Run high-availability multi-region services with Cloud Run, dives deep into building fault tolerant and reliable applications using Google Cloud’s serverless container platform: Cloud Run. Google experts Shane Ouchi and Taylor Money, along with Seenuvasan Devasenan from

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StreamSight: Driving transparency in music royalties with AI-powered forecasting

In an industry generating vast volumes of streaming data every day, ensuring precision, speed, and transparency in royalty tracking is a constant and evolving priority. For music creators, labels, publishers, and rights holders, even small gaps in data clarity can influence how and when income is distributed — making innovation in data processing and anomaly

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Accelerate your IPv6 journey: Introducing DNS64 and NAT64 for the Cross-Cloud Network

We introduced Cross-Cloud Network to help organizations transform hybrid and multicloud connectivity, and today, many customers are using it to build distributed applications across multiple clouds, on-premises networks, and the internet. A key aspect of this evolution is the ability to scale with IPv6 addressing. However, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a gradual

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Introducing BigQuery soft failover: Greater control for disaster recovery testing

Most businesses with mission-critical workloads have a two-fold disaster recovery solution in place that 1) replicates data to a secondary location, and 2) enables failover to that location in the event of an outage. For BigQuery, that solution takes the shape of BigQuery Managed Disaster Recovery. But the risk of data loss while testing a

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From query to cart: Inside Target’s search bar overhaul with AlloyDB AI

Editor’s note: Target set out to modernize its digital search experience to better match guest expectations and support more intuitive discovery across millions of products. To meet that challenge, they rebuilt their platform with hybrid search powered by filtered vector queries and AlloyDB AI. The result: a faster, smarter, more resilient search experience that’s already

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ViewState Deserialization Zero-Day Vulnerability in Sitecore Products (CVE-2025-53690)

Written by: Rommel Joven, Josh Fleischer, Joseph Sciuto, Andi Slok, Choon Kiat Ng In a recent investigation, Mandiant Threat Defense discovered an active ViewState deserialization attack affecting Sitecore deployments leveraging sample machine keys that had been exposed in Sitecore deployment guides from 2017 and earlier. An attacker leveraged the exposed ASP.NET machine keys to perform

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