Practices
Implementing Observability For Always-On Ecommerce Experience
In today’s Digital age, the emphasis continues to be on automation and improving business processes, employee productivity and customer experiences to meet the ever changing business and consumer expectations. According to Gartner, organizations will require more IT and business process automation as they are forced to accelerate digital transformation plans in a post pandemic, digital-first …
Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 6 Tips To Optimize Data Management And Analytics
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, Google Cloud Big Data & Analytics Consultant Julianne Cuneo explores how to get started using …
Advanced Topic Modeling Tutorial: How to Use SVD & NMF in Python
In the context of Natural Language Processing (NLP), topic modeling is an unsupervised learning problem whose goal is to find abstract topics in a collection of documents. Topic Modeling answers the question: “Given a text corpus of many documents, can we find the abstract topics that the text is talking about?” In this tutorial, you’ll: Learn about two …
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 …
Spatial Clustering On BigQuery – Best Practices
Most data analysts are familiar with the concept of organizing data into clusters so that it can be queried faster and at a lower cost. The user behavior dictates how the dataset should be clustered: for example, when a user seeks to analyze or visualize geospatial data (a.k.a location data), it is most efficient to …
How To Avoid Cloud Misconfigurations And Move Towards Continuous Compliance
Security is often seen as a zero-sum game between “go fast” or “stay secure.” We would like to challenge this school of thought and introduce a framework to change that paradigm to a “win-win game,” so you can do both—“go fast” and “stay secure.” Historically, application security tools have been implemented much like a gate …
How A Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange Can Help Healthcare Prioritize Cybersecurity Risk
Diagnosing and treating chronic pain can be complex, difficult, and full of uncertainties for a patient and their treating physician. Depending on the condition of the patient and the knowledge of the physician, making the correct diagnosis takes time, and experimenting with different treatments might be required. This trial-and-error process can leave the patient in …
Best Practices Of Migrating Hive ACID Tables To BigQuery
Are you looking to migrate a large amount of Hive ACID tables to BigQuery? ACID enabled Hive tables support transactions that accept updates and delete DML operations. In this blog, we will explore migrating Hive ACID tables to BigQuery. The approach explored in this blog works for both compacted (major / minor) and non-compacted Hive …
Controlling Your BigQuery Costs
Are you worried about controlling your BigQuery costs across multiple projects? In this blog, you will learn about the different guardrails BigQuery provides to limit costs, and monitor BigQuery consumption. Also, learn how to design the warehouse that scales seamlessly while keeping costs under your control. 1. Set up user-level quota and project-level quota can …
Building Security Guardrails For Developers With Google Cloud
Organizations across the globe are using the cloud to drive innovation. Developers are using cloud technology as the engine to test new ideas, fail fast, and automate scalability. Innovation on the cloud requires freedom and flexibility to run experiments and make mistakes. For many organizations with security top of mind, their concern is “How do …