Cloud Computing

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 […]

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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

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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

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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

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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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