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Chat with confidence: Unpacking security in Looker Conversational Analytics

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The landscape of business intelligence is evolving rapidly, with users expecting greater self-service and natural language capabilities, powered by AI. Looker’s Conversational Analytics empowers everyone in your organization to access the wealth of information within your data. Select the data you wish to explore, ask questions in natural language, as you would a colleague, and […]

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Isolated Recovery Environments: A Critical Layer in Modern Cyber Resilience

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Written by: Jaysn Rye Executive Summary As adversaries grow faster, stealthier, and more destructive, traditional recovery strategies are increasingly insufficient. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2025 report reinforces this shift, highlighting that ransomware operators now routinely target not just production systems but also backups. This evolution demands that organizations re-evaluate their resilience posture. One approach gaining traction is

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AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for Amazon DynamoDB now Generally Available

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Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for Amazon DynamoDB. This is a seamless, serverless caching solution that enables .NET developers to efficiently manage their caching needs across distributed systems. Consistent caching is a difficult problem in distributed architectures, where maintaining data integrity and performance across

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How to build a simple multi-agentic system using Google’s ADK

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Agents are top of mind for enterprises, but often we find customers building one “super” agent – a jack of all trades – instead creating multiple agents that can specialize and work together. Monolithic agents often crumble under their own weight because of instruction overload, inaccurate outputs, and brittle systems that are impossible to scale. 

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Powering public sector innovation: New networking features in GDC air-gapped

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For organizations with stringent sovereignty and regulatory requirements, Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped delivers a fully-managed experience with critical advanced networking capabilities. But operating in a completely isolated environment presents some unique networking challenges. Routine tasks become significantly more complex and manual, demanding more planning and bespoke solutions than on a connected network. Today, we’re

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Is your database holding you back? Boosting database efficiency and ROI with Cloud SQL

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Editor’s Note: Today, we’re sharing insights from IDC Research Director, Devin Pratt, as he offers his analysis of recent research on Cloud SQL. In this post, you’ll see how Cloud SQL’s highly flexible, fully managed database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server workloads can boost performance and cut costs, ultimately freeing your team to

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A guide to converting ADK agents with MCP to the A2A framework

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The evolution of AI agents has led to powerful, specialized models capable of complex tasks. The Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) – a toolkit designed to simplify the construction and management of language model-based applications – makes it easy for developers to build agents, usually equipped with tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for

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Programming problems that seem easy, but aren’t, featuring Jon Skeet

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Jon Skeet, the first Stack Overflow user with a million reputation, sits down with Ryan to share his wealth of knowledge on all things development: the deceptively simple but actually complicated problem of timezones, the importance of clear documentation for programmers, handling breaking changes and upgrading legacy systems, and the need for improved communication skills

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