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First Dedicated AI Management And MLOps Platform On Google Cloud Marketplace
Editor’s note: Prevision.io has built the first ever pay-as-you-go AI management platform that simplifies the machine learning project lifecycle while offering powerful analytics capabilities. Now available exclusively on Google Cloud Marketplace, users can experiment, build, deploy, and manage AI projects in the cloud in weeks—without having extensive data science knowledge. Similar to the momentum that …
Is There A Limit To Cloud VMs? A Conversation
We published another episode of “VM End to End,” which is a series of curated conversations between a “VM skeptic” and a “VM enthusiast”. Every episode, join Brian, Carter, and a special guest as they explore why VMs are some of Google’s most trusted and reliable offerings, and how VMs benefit companies operating at scale …
Automating Income Taxes With Document AI
In the United States, Tax Season descends upon the country every April, requiring millions of Americans to spend hours deciphering cryptic documents and performing complex math just to figure out what they owe. Wouldn’t it be grand if there was a way for a computer to take all the relevant documents and extract out exactly …
The Definitive Guide To Databases On Google Cloud: Part 1 – Data Modeling Basics
The next best thing since sliced bread! As I wake up to the smell of tea and freshly ground cardamom every morning, all I could think of is how nice it would be with some soft buttery sliced bread! Hmm… if only it wasn’t for the gluten allergy. Anyway, the one thing that is half …
Follow The Pink Pony: A Story Of CSRF, Managed Services, And Unicorns
With the release of Django 4.0, there was a minor change to how Django handles CSRF protections: the Origin header is now checked, if present. Specifically, the URL scheme is now checked. Now, this seems like an innocuous change, something that shouldn’t affect many users. However, this change would break Django 4.0 deployments to Cloud …
Broad Institute Speeds Scientific Research With Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops genomics software, needs to keep pace with the latest scientific discoveries. Here’s how they use managed database services from Google Cloud to move fast and stay on the cutting edge. The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is a …
Meet The People Of Google Cloud: Grace Mollison, Solutions Architect And Professional Problem Solver
What’s your role? I lead the EMEA team of Cloud Solutions Architects, a team responsible for supporting & scaling the efforts of hundreds of customer sales engineers, specialists, partners and customers, across a range of industries. The goal is not simply to figure out technical solutions that have others stumped, but to share complex …
Using Memorystore For Redis To Cache Your Django Applications
As you start scaling up your serverless applications, caching is one of elements that can greatly improve your site’s performance and responsiveness. With the release of Django 4.0, Redis is now a core supported caching backend. Redis is available as part of Memorystore, Google Cloud’s managed in-memory data store. For Django deployments hosted on Cloud …
Up For An Update? Cloud SQL Launches Support For In-Place Upgrades
If you adore databases like we do, the launch of a new major version is an event you celebrate. With each new major version comes cutting-edge database features, performance boosts, and other goodies for database lovers like you. You can hardly wait to spin up a Cloud SQL instance to test out the freshest release …
How Do Payments Providers Keep From Getting Disrupted? By Disrupting Themselves First
The first time I ever hailed a car with a ridesharing app, I went from point A to point B and never once had to think about whether I had enough cash or what credit card to use. This magical digital black car service removed the friction of a payment step from the journey, and …