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Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. Ten years, three months and 30 days ago, we wrote our first post on this blog, and now, we’re writing our last at this particular web address. Today, it’s with great excitement that we present to you the Google Cloud blog, your home for all the latest GCP product news, how-to’s, perspectives and customer stories that you’re used to, all living happily on a shiny, new mobile-friendly platform. We’re really excited about this change. Not only does the new blog look really nice, but it includes all the content from across the ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. The month of July saw our Google Cloud Next ‘18 conference come and go, and there was plenty of exciting news, updates and demos to share from the show. Here’s a look at some of the most-read blog posts from July.What caught your attention this month: Creating the open cloud One of the most-read posts this month covered the launch of our Cloud Services Platform, which allows you to build a true hybrid cloud infrastructure. Some of the key components of Cloud Services Platform include the managed Istio service mesh, Google Kubernetes ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By James O’Keeffe, Senior Site Reliability Engineer To support our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers, we run a complex global network that depends on multiple providers and a lot of hardware. Google network engineering uses a diverse set of vendor equipment to route user traffic from an internet service provider to one of our serving front ends inside a GCP data center. This equipment is proprietary and made by external networking vendors such as Arista, Cisco and Juniper. Each vendor has distinct operational methods, configurations and operational consoles. With hundreds of distinct ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Performing large-scale mutations in BigQuery Tuesday, July 31, 2018 By Karthi Thyagarajan, Solutions Architect BigQuery is a fast, highly scalable, cost-effective and fully-managed enterprise data warehouse for analytics at any scale. As BigQuery has grown in popularity, one question that often comes up has to do with the topic of performing mutations (updates and deletes) in an efficient and scalable manner. Unlike Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems, BigQuery has limits on the frequency ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Dan Ciruli, Product ManagerToday, Google Cloud is proud to announce, together with our collaborators, that the Istio open-source project has reached the 1.0 milestone. This is a key step toward delivering the Cloud Services Platform that we discussed last week, helping you manage your services in a hybrid world where some of your infrastructure runs on VMs and some in Kubernetes, some services run in the cloud and some on-premises. Istio: a service mesh Istio is at its heart a service mesh—software that layers transparently onto an existing distributed application. It ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Etan Shaul, Software Engineer Great news for IntelliJ users: You can now use Google Cloud services and APIs right from JetBrains’ integrated development environment (IDE). With the Cloud Tools for IntelliJ plugin, you can now discover APIs, consume them, and test against them locally, all without leaving your IDE. The Cloud Tools plugin for IntelliJ streamlines the development process by integrating tasks into the IDE, such as enabling Google Cloud APIs, creating service accounts for local development, and adding the corresponding Java client libraries to your build.Example: Using the Cloud Translation ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager If you’re responsible for application performance and availability, you know how hard it can be to see it through the eyes of your customers and end users. We think that’s really going to change with last week’s introduction of Stackdriver Service Monitoring, a new tool for monitoring how your customers perceive your applications, and that then lets you drill down to the underlying infrastructure when there’s a problem. Most IT operations tools take a bottoms-up understanding of IT systems: they look at compute, storage, and networking ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Preparing and curating your data for machine learning Monday, July 30, 2018 By Rostam Dinyari, Strategic Cloud Engineer To design and implement a successful machine learning (ML) project, you often need to collaborate with multiple teams, including those in business, sales, research, and engineering. Understanding the essentials of gathering and preparing your data is crucial to align teams and to get the project off the ground. This post will leave you with a list ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager Like all good IT organizations, you religiously measure the performance and availability of your services and applications. But if those apps run in the cloud, critical components are often delivered by a third party or the cloud provider. In the case of a service disruption or degraded performance, how do you know what the problem is—your code, the network, or the provider? And, if the problem is with the service provider, how do you convince them to take action as quickly as possible? Here at Google ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Melody Meckfessel, Vice President, Engineering, Google CloudToday, Google Cloud and GitHub are delivering a new integrated experience that connects GitHub with Google’s Cloud Build, our new CI/CD platform. Together, we will provide fast, frictionless, and convenient Continuous Integration (CI) for any repository on GitHub, integrated directly into the GitHub developer workflow.Millions of developers trust GitHub today to store and collaborate around source code. Working with GitHub, we realized we had an opportunity to help make it significantly easier for any repository to add CI, integrate DevOps practices, and improve velocity and ... Read More