Author: Google Cloud

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Kelsey Hightower, Developer Advocate The general availability of Cloud Spanner is really good news for developers. For the first time, you have direct access to horizontally-scaling, cloud-native infrastructure that provides global transactions (think apps that involve payments, inventory, ticketing, or financial trading) and that defaults to the “gold standard” of strong/external consistency without compromising latency. Try that with either a traditional RDBMS or non-relational database. Thanks to the GCP Free Trial that offers $300 in credits for one year, you can get your feet wet with a single-node Cloud Spanner cluster ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Neal Cardwell, Senior Staff Software Engineer; Yuchung Cheng, Senior Staff Software Engineer; C. Stephen Gunn, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer; Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Senior Software Engineer; Van Jacobson, Research Scientist and Amin Vahdat, Google Fellow We're excited to announce that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) now features a cutting-edge new congestion control algorithm, TCP BBR, which achieves higher bandwidths and lower latencies for internet traffic. This is the same BBR that powers TCP traffic from google.com and that improved YouTube network throughput by 4 percent on average globally — and by more than 14 percent ... 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 Thursday, July 20, 2017 By Gus Class, Developer Programs Engineer In a previous blog post, we talked about how to query public datasets for analysis and visualization in R. This is a great option when you have a dataset available on BigQuery (GCP’s fully-managed data warehouse service). The natural next question you may have is, "How do I take data that I've processed in R and store it in BigQuery?" By doing that, ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Grace Mollison, Cloud Solutions Architect Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers robust service account key management capabilities to help ensure that only authorized and properly authenticated entities can access resources running on GCP. If an application runs entirely on GCP, managing service account keys is easy — they never leave GCP, and GCP performs tasks like key rotation automatically. But many applications run on multiple environments — local developer laptops, on-premises databases and even environments running in other public clouds. In that case, keeping keys safe can be tricky. Ensuring that account keys aren’t exposed as ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Ben Chong, Product Manager, Transfer Appliance Back in the eighties, when network constraints limited data transfers, people took to the streets and walked their floppy disks where they needed to go. And Sneakernet was born. In the world of cloud and exponential data growth, the size of the disk and the speed of your sneakers may have changed, but the solution is the same: Sometimes the best way to move data is to ship it on physical media. Today, we’re excited to introduce Transfer Appliance, to help you ingest large amounts ... 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 Tuesday, July 18, 2017 By Nate Kupp, Manager, Technical Infrastructure at Thumbtack In early 2015, we began building data infrastructure at Thumbtack. At the time, the company’s data was spread across a PostgreSQL replica and a MongoDB cluster, neither of which were scaling adequately to handle the load of analytics and BI queries. Our largest table in PostgreSQL had more than a billion records and many queries took nearly an hour to complete ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Woody Sherman, CSO and Vipin Sachdeva, Principal Investigator, Silicon Therapeutics [Editor’s note: Today we hear from Boston, MA-based Silicon Therapeutics, which is applying computational methods in the context of complex biochemical problems relevant in human biology.] As an integrated computational drug discovery firm, we recently deployed our INSITE Screening platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to analyze over 10 million commercially available molecular compounds as potential starting materials for next-generation medicines. In one week, we performed over 500 million docking computations to evaluate how a protein responds to a given molecule ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform Starting today, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers can use the new region in London (europe-west2) to run applications and store data in London. London is our tenth region and joins our existing European region in Belgium. Future European regions include Frankfurt, the Netherlands and Finland. Incredible user experiences hinge on performant infrastructure. GCP customers throughout the British Isles and Western Europe will see significant reductions in latency when they run their workloads in the London region. In cities like London, Dublin, Edinburgh and Amsterdam, ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Aparna Sinha, Group Product Manager, Container Engine Just over a week ago Google led the most recent open source release of Kubernetes 1.7, and today, that version is available on Container Engine, Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) managed container service. Container Engine is one of the first commercial Kubernetes offerings running the latest 1.7 release, and includes differentiated features for enterprise security, extensibility, hybrid networking and developer efficiency. Let’s take a look at what’s new in Container Engine. Enterprise security Container Engine is designed with enterprise security in mind. By default, Container ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Greg Brown, Director, DevOps, Loot Crate [Editor’s note: Gamers and superfans know Loot Crate, which delivers boxes of themed swag to 650,000 subscribers every month. Loot Crate built its back-end on Heroku, but for its next venture — Sports Crate — the company decided to containerize its Rails app with Google Container Engine, and added continuous deployment with Jenkins. Read on to learn how they did it.] Founded in 2012, Loot Crate is the worldwide leader in fan subscription boxes, partnering with entertainment, gaming and pop culture creators to deliver monthly themed crates, produce interactive ... Read More