Editor’s note: Yahoo Mail is in the midst of one of its largest infrastructure transformations to date: a multi-year effort to modernize hundreds of petabytes of services by moving to Google Cloud.The Yahoo Mail migration – a high-scale always-on workload – began with Yahoo Calendar, a product that is an essential part of the experience […]
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For the eighth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, and this year Google is also now ranked the highest for completeness of vision. Download the complimentary 2025 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. How do we keep getting recognized year over year?
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As companies integrate AI into their workflows, connecting new tools to their existing data while ensuring consistent security and accuracy becomes increasingly important. We’re introducing Looker Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an integration in the MCP Toolbox for Databases. This allows AI applications such as chatbots and custom agents to connect to trusted data from
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Ryan welcomes Paul Everitt, developer advocate at JetBrains and an early adopter of Python, to discuss the history, growth, and future of Python. They cover Python’s pivotal moments and rise alongside the internet, the increased adoption from transitions like Python 2 to Python 3, and the significant role Python plays in academia and data science
Python: Come for the language, stay for the community Read More »
In the age of AI, being able to make applications and create code has never been easier. But is it any good? Here’s what vibe coding is like for someone without technical skills.
A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge Read More »
Storage buckets are where your data lives in the cloud. Much like digital real estate, these buckets are your own plot of land on the internet. When you move away and no longer need a specific bucket, someone else can reuse the plot of land it refers to — if the old address is still
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As NASA embarks on a new era of human spaceflight, beginning with the Artemis campaign’s aim to return to the Moon, preparations are underway to ensure crew health and wellness. This includes exploring whether remote care capabilities can deliver detailed diagnoses and treatment options if a physician is not onboard or if real-time communication with
How Google and NASA are testing AI for medical care in space Read More »
The age of AI is here, and organizations everywhere are racing to deploy powerful models to drive innovation, enhance products, and create entirely new user experiences. But moving from a trained model in a lab to a scalable, cost-effective, and production-grade inference service is a significant engineering challenge. It requires deep expertise in infrastructure, networking,
Google is committed to helping federal agencies meet their mission, more securely and more efficiently, with innovative cloud technologies. Today, we’re reinforcing our commitment to FedRAMP 20x, an innovative pilot program that marks a paradigm shift in federal cloud authorization. FedRAMP 20x is a new assessment process designed to move away from traditional narrative-based requirements
Accelerating FedRAMP 20x: How Google Cloud is automating compliance Read More »
In a prior blog post, we introduced BigQuery’s advanced runtime, where we detailed enhanced vectorization and discussed techniques like dictionary and run-length encoded data, vectorized filter evaluation and compute pushdown, and parallelizable execution. This blog post dives into short query optimizations, a key component of BigQuery’s advanced runtime. These optimizations can significantly speed up the
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