Technology
Why Do People Say: “Developers Are Lazy”?
What does it mean to be lazy? According to the Cambridge dictionary, it means to: “not be willing to work or use any effort.” But how does that translate into a programmer’s job? Being a Developer, the Hard way Without a doubt, the work of a programmer is full of challenges. But what makes a …
Leveraging BigQuery Audit Log Pipelines For Usage Analytics
In the BigQuery Spotlight series, we talked about Monitoring. This post focuses on using Audit Logs for deep dive monitoring. BigQuery Audit Logs are a collection of logs provided by Google Cloud that provide insight into operations related to your use of BigQuery. A wealth of information is available to you in the Audit Logs. …
The Top Three Insights We Learned From Data Analytics Customers In 2021
As you know, we’re obsessed about learning from customers. That’s why, we made it a point to sit down with a new Google Cloud customer every week this year to share with you their journey both to our unified data cloud platform and what they’ve learned from their experience along the way. What began as …
Google Cloud Partners With Minsait To Boost Digital Sovereignty In Spain
– The two strategic partners will offer enhanced trusted cloud solutions for Spanish organizations in the public and private sectors, supporting innovation while keeping their most sensitive data confidential, secure and sovereign – Joint offering will leverage the latest encryption, access, transparency, and data location technologies, and will be supported by Google’s new cloud region …
2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ For Cloud Database Management Systems Recognizes Google As A Leader
We are thrilled that Gartner has positioned Google as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS). We believe the report evaluated Google’s unified capabilities across both transactional and analytical use cases, and showcases innovation progress in areas like data management …
Four Security Trends For ‘22—And What To Do About Them
When it comes to cloud security, 2022 will be the year that the past catches up with the future. Trends that businesses have been ignoring for too long will force organizations large and small to confront and control their security debt. That’s according to Google Cloud’s own cybersecurity experts, who have identified four security trends …
Google Cloud Managed Compute Platforms: Top 10 Blog Posts Of 2021
Sure, Google Cloud offers world-class infrastructure, but one of the main reasons that customers choose our platform is to run their applications on one of our managed container platforms: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the most scalable and easy to use service from the company that invented Kubernetes; Anthos for managing containers in hybrid and multicloud …
Compliance Engineering – Continuous Compliance GCP Case Studies
Our previous article provided tools and techniques to transform your productionalization process and make it ready for Cloud workloads. In this post, we will cover technical examples of GCP controls and how it can help your organization maintain your security and compliance posture in GCP. In comparison to on-prem infrastructure, GCP is a highly integrated …
Easy As Pie Serverless Hackathon
Over the past year, serverless application development has seen tremendous interest. The number of opportunities that show up on job boards showcase how critical this skill has become. It’s not surprising that at Google, we have seen the use of Serverless products increase by 4X over the past year. Particularly, as developers have moved away …
Improving The Speed And Security Of Your Cloud Deployments
For many of those building in the cloud, speed and security of deployments are amongst their top priorities. At times these goals can seem at odds with each other, especially if security guidance is distributed, written more as reference than opinion, and lacking in tooling for actual implementation in your environment. But they don’t have …