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How Healthcare Can Strengthen Its Own Cybersecurity Resilience
With all the crises that have buffeted the healthcare and life sciences industries the past two years, one that often gets overlooked is the unceasing wave of cyberattacks aimed at medical, research, educational, and public health organizations. These attacks have shut down critical systems, attempted to steal vaccines and other research, and even halted paychecks …
Celebrating National Muffin Day With Machine Learning
If you’re here you’re probably wondering: what on Earth is the connection between muffins and machine learning, and what is National Muffin Day? To understand this, let’s start with National Muffin Day: an annual holiday co-founded by Jacob and his friend Julia Levy in 2015 to bake muffins and raise money for homelessness. National Muffin …
Know More, Spend Less: How GKE Cost Optimization Insights Help You Optimize Kubernetes
If there’s one thing we learned talking to Kubernetes users, it’s that optimizing for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency is hard — especially at scale. That is why, not long ago, we released GKE cost optimization insights in preview, a tab within the Google Cloud Console that helps you discover optimization opportunities at scale, across …
Implementing The Saga Pattern In Workflows
It’s common to have a separate database for each service in microservices-based architectures. This pattern ensures that the independently designed and deployed microservices remain independent in the data layer as well. But it also introduces a new problem: How do you implement transactions (single units of work, usually made up of multiple operations) that span …
15 Books for Computer Science Students
We are in the modern world where the digitization of much of education is already well underway. Nowadays, lots of blogs and articles are on the internet, for free, to learn from. But The Book has its own value: the author puts his all knowledge experience and time to write one whole book. The knowledge …
Pub/Sub Lite Low Cost Messaging, Now With Higher Availability
When you build highly resilient data analytics pipelines, difficult trade-offs are common. Increasing reliability can come at a cost, but then pursuing low cost can mean more hands-on, operational management. The Cloud Pub/Sub team wants to give you the flexibility to optimize for cost, reliability, and level of management given your workload. So, we’re introducing …
How To Build A Digital Commerce Platform On Google Cloud
Are you a retailer looking to create a next-gen digital commerce platform? If so, you have landed at the right place! This post describes three different ways to modernize your ecommerce platform on Google Cloud. No one way is right or wrong. You can start off on any path that works well for your team …
Looking To Build A Recommendation System On Google Cloud? Leverage The Following Guidelines To Identify The Right Solution For You (part I)
Over the past two decades, consumers have become accustomed to receiving personalized recommendations in all facets of their online life. Whether that be recommended products while shopping on Amazon, a curated list of apps in the Google Play store, or relevant videos to watch next on YouTube. In fact, in a Verge article “How YouTube …
Strengthening Our European Data Sovereignty Offerings With Assured Workloads For EU
European organizations, both public and private, are migrating their operations and data to the cloud in increasing numbers. In doing so, they need confidence they can meet their unique needs for security, privacy, and digital sovereignty. Key requirements include the ability to store data within a European geographic region, to ensure that support is provided …
Intro To Data Science On Google Cloud
While you likely know that data science is the practice of making data useful, you may not have a clear landscape around the tools that can aid each stage of the data science workflow as you use machine learning to tackle your challenges. Click to enlarge Read on to discover the six broad areas …