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
Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers Read More »
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
BigQuery under the hood: Short query optimizations in the advanced runtime Read More »
In a world where data is your most valuable asset, protecting it isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s a necessity. That’s why we are thrilled to announce a significant leap forward in protecting the data in your Cloud SQL instances, with Enhanced Backups for Cloud SQL. This powerful new capability integrates Google Cloud Backup and
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Asad Rahman, Director of IT for Wayfair, a leading e-commerce company specializing in furniture and home goods. Wayfair chose ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex devices to support contact center staff, improve productivity, and streamline security tasks. “ChromeOS is a natural fit for how Wayfair operates today. We’ve embraced Google Workspace
Wayfair Transforms Contact Center Operations with ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex Read More »
For years, organizations have struggled with the workload conflict between online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytical query processing. OLTP systems such as Spanner are optimized for high-volume, low-latency transactions, and use row-oriented storage that’s efficient for individual record access. Analytical workloads, conversely, require rapid aggregations and scans across large datasets. These tasks are traditionally handled
Spanner columnar engine: Powering next-generation analytics on operational data Read More »
