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Best Practices For Upgrading Your Anthos Clusters On Bare Metal
If you’re using Anthos to enable a hybrid or multicloud deployment, one option is to run the Kubernetes-based platform directly on bare metal hardware, without a virtualization layer. Running your applications on Anthos clusters on bare metal delivers strong performance and flexibility, while allowing you to modernize your applications: Anthos clusters on bare metal are …
5 Companies, 1 Clear Path To Cloud Success: RISE With SAP On Google Cloud
The practical benefits of migrating SAP systems to the cloud aren’t lost on most businesses. Running SAP in the cloud lets companies simplify tasks, scale quickly, and reduce costs. But as a growing number of organizations are discovering, the cloud is more than the sum of improved processes and workflows. It offers unique and powerful …
Meet AI’s Multitool: Vector Embeddings
Embeddings are one of the most versatile techniques in machine learning, and a critical tool every ML engineer should have in their toolbelt. It’s a shame, then, that so few of us understand what they are and what they’re good for! The problem, perhaps, is that embeddings sound slightly abstract and esoteric: In machine learning, …
How Technology Is Forging The Foundation For More Efficient, Transparent And Secure Financial Markets
Financial markets were among the first to adopt new technologies, and that has certainly been true of the derivatives markets, which were early adopters of electronic trading. Going forward, new capabilities will transform the way industry participants communicate, analyze, and trade. I sat down with Google Cloud’s Phil Moyer and former SEC Commissioner, Troy Paredes, …
Using Vertex AI For Rapid Model Prototyping And Deployment
Bringing AI models to a production environment is one of the biggest challenges of AI practitioners. Much of the discussions in the AI/ML space revolve around model development. As shown in this diagram from the canonical Google paper “Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems”, the bulk of activities, time and expense in building and …
Maximize Your Cloud Spanner Savings With New Committed Use Discounts
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database that offers near unlimited scale, strong consistency, and industry leading high availability of up to 99.999%. Spanner powers applications of all sizes in multiple industries including financial services, gaming, retail, and healthcare. Spanner provides great value and price-performance since it helps you save operational costs, provides multiple …
Launching New Feature Or Games On Existing Cloud Spanner Database With Load Generator Tool
Game developers often reuse their existing database platform to launch their new games or launch new features to their existing games. This requires the database to scale in terms of new schema (tables, index, etc.), data and traffic. For games built with Cloud Spanner databases, most database operations can be done seamlessly, without affecting production …
Using VACUUM To Accelerate Transaction ID Freezing In Cloud SQL For PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL uses transaction IDs (TXIDs, XIDs) to implement Multi-Version Concurrency Control semantics (MVCC). The PostgreSQL documentation explains the role of TXIDs as follows: PostgreSQL’s MVCC transaction semantics depend on being able to compare transaction ID (XID) numbers: a row version with an insertion XID greater than the current transaction’s XID is “in the future” and …
Developing High-Quality ML Solutions
When a deployed ML model produces poor predictions, it can be due to a wide range of problems. It can be the result of bugs that are typical in any program—but it can also be the result of ML-specific problems. Perhaps data skews and anomalies are causing model performance to degrade over time. Or the …
Introducing Google Cloud’s Tomcat Migration Tooling
Apache Tomcat is one of the most commonly used web servers and servlet containers for running Java applications. Many enterprises run production Java web applications on Tomcat servers, running on virtual machines and are looking to modernize those applications to run in containers and enjoy the benefits of containerized, cloud native environments such as Cloud Run or Google Kubernetes …