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Show Off Your Cloud Skills By Completing The #GoogleClout Weekly Challenge
Who’s up for a challenge? It’s time to show off your #GoogleClout! Starting today, check in every Wednesday to unlock a new cloud puzzle that will test your cloud skills against participants worldwide. Stephanie Wong’s previous record is 5 minutes, can you complete the new challenge in 4? #GoogleClout Challenge The #GoogleClout challenge is a …

Bonjour Paris: New Google Cloud Region In France Is Now Open
At Google Cloud, we recognize that to be truly global, we must be local too. This means we need to be as close as possible to our customers, their locations, their regulations, and their values. Today, we’re excited to announce another step towards this goal: Our new Google Cloud region in Paris, France is officially …

Google Cloud Announces New Partnership With Global Fashion Retailer
Strategic agreement will enable global retailing house to create stronger omnichannel customer experiences and optimise internal supply chains through an enterprise data backbone and advanced AI/ML capabilities Google Cloud announced a new partnership with global fashion retailer, H&M Group. The alliance will see the Swedish multinational leverage Google Cloud’s extensive data analytics capabilities and secure, …

Bio Farma Collaborates With Google Cloud And ‘Connectedlife With Fitbit’ To Empower Healthier Living And Chronic Disease Prevention Across Indonesia
Organizations to drive personalized preventive care at scale through a tailored and scientifically validated digital health initiative and platform for healthcare providers, employers, and the wider population Jakarta, Indonesia, June 30, 2022 – Bio Farma, the parent company of Indonesia’s pharmaceutical state-owned enterprises (SOEs), today announced that it is collaborating with Google Cloud, Fitbit, and ConnectedLife on a new …

Introducing Query Insights For Cloud Spanner: Troubleshoot Performance Issues With Pre-Built Dashboards
Application development teams are more agile and are shipping features faster than ever before. In addition to these rapid development cycles and the rise of microservices architectures, the end-to-end ownership of feature development (and performance monitoring) has moved to a shared responsibility model between advanced database administrators and full-stack developers. However, most developers don’t have …

DevOps Vs. SRE Vs. Platform Engineering? The Gaps Might Be Smaller Than You Think
Platform engineering is the new cool kid on the block that everyone wants to be friends with. However, many are still confused where this new discipline comes from and how it differentiates from more established practices like DevOps and SRE. In this article, we provide some historical context and explain how they all relate to …

Earn Google Cloud Swag When You Complete The #LearnToEarn Challenge
The MLOps market is expected to grow to around $700m by 20251. With the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification topping the list of highest paying IT certifications in 20212, there has never been a better time to grow your data and ML skills with Google Cloud. Introducing the Google Cloud #LearnToEarn challenge Starting today, …

How The Home Depot Is Teaming Up With Google Cloud To Delight Customers With Personalized Shopping Experiences
The Home Depot, Inc., is the world’s largest home improvement retailer with annual revenue of over $151B. Delighting our customers—whether do-it-yourselfers or professionals—by providing the home improvement products, services, and equipment rentals they need, when they need them, is key to our success. We operate more than 2,300 stores throughout the United States, Canada, and …

The Top 10 Fallacies In Platform Engineering
We spoke to over 1850 engineering organizations last year. Most are planning to or already building an Internal Developer Platform. Here are the hardest lessons and fallacies we have seen these teams fall into. Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms and developer self-service in general are a rapidly growing trend. According to Puppet’s State of DevOps Reports …