Top 9 Overlooked Questions When Designing Your Stateful Cloud Native Network Application
When designing a stateful cloud native applications, and especially a stateful cloud native network application, you must determine which data model matches the functional requirements of the system. There is often confusion about vocabulary within the telco and networking space when it comes to data (for instance, there are stateful protocols like tcp/ip and stateful data …
Go Runtime: 4 Years Later
What’s new? sync.Pool, a GC-aware tool for reusing memory, has a lower latency impact and recycles memory much more effectively than before. (Go 1.13) The Go runtime returns unneeded memory back to the operating system much more proactively, reducing excess memory consumption and the chance of out-of-memory errors. This reduces idle memory consumption by up to 20%. (Go 1.13 and …
Migrating The AOSP QuickSearchBox App To Kotlin
Overview For the past three years, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) applications team has taken on the task of converting AOSP apps from Java to Kotlin. This pursuit was begun as part of Android’s commitment to increasingly develop with Kotlin-first. Kotlin is a safe, pragmatic, and concise language, with a number of language-specific advantages. Useful Kotlin language …
How-To: Install And Configure Neo4j On Ubuntu 22.04
How-To: Install And Configure Neo4j On Ubuntu 22.04 This guide contains instructions on how to install and perform basic configuration of the community edition of Neo4j on a Ubuntu 22.04 machine. Installation 01. Open a terminal window 02. Update the package repository list $ sudo apt update 03. Install Java. This will install the default …
Listen Up: Meet Our Multicloud Mindset Series On Twitter Spaces
There’s never been a better time to talk about multicloud. It is not simply about ‘lifting-and-shifting’ old IT infrastructure to a cloud for cost savings and convenience, but driving digital transformation by inventing new ways to accomplish business objectives using the best of breed services from different cloud providers. In fact, industry research finds that …
What’s New With Google’s Unified, Open And Intelligent Data Cloud
We’re fortunate to work with some of the world’s most innovative customers on a daily basis, many of whom come to Google Cloud for our well-established expertise in data analytics and AI. As we’ve worked and partnered with these data leaders, we have encountered similar priorities among many of them: to remove the barriers of …
Google Launches Dedicated Cloud Training Program For Ukrainians
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published in Ukrainian on September 14. 2022. Google launches cloud technology training program to support Ukrainian businesses and IT professionals Around the world, organizations across multiple industries are in the midst of digitally transforming their businesses. And Ukrainian businesses are no different – they are looking for new ways to survive, grow …
Introducing Google Cloud Backup And DR
Backup is a fundamental aspect of application protection. As such, the need for a seamlessly integrated, centralized backup service is vital when seeking to ensure resilience and recoverability for data generated by Google Cloud services or on-premises infrastructure. Regardless of whether the need to restore data is triggered by a user error, malicious activity, or …
New Storage Innovations To Drive Your Next-Gen Applications
As we talk to customers large and small, we are seeing more and more “data-rich” workloads moving to the cloud. Customers are collecting more valuable data than ever before, and they want that data from different sources to be centralized and normalized before running analytics on it. Storage is becoming the common substrate for enabling …
Optimizing Terabyte-Scale PostgreSQL Migrations To Cloud SQL With Searce
Google Cloud allows you to move your PostgreSQL databases to Cloud SQL with Database Migration Service (DMS). DMS gives you the ability to replicate data continuously to the destination database, while the source is live in production, enabling you to migrate with minimum downtime. However, terabyte-scale migrations can be complex. For instance, if your PostgreSQL …