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Write Directly from Cloud Pub/Sub to BigQuery with BigQuery Subscription
Recently Google introduced a new type of Pub/Sub subscription called a “BigQuery subscription,” allowing to write directly from Cloud Pub/Sub to BigQuery. The company claims that this new extract, load, and transform (ELT) path will be able to simplify event-driven architectures.
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Are Recursive Serverless Functions the Biggest Billing Risk on the Cloud?
Forrest Brazeal, head of content at Google Cloud, recently argued that serverless functions are the cloud's biggest billing risk for developers as there's no simple way to protect against recursive calls and they can scale out almost indefinitely on all the cloud providers.
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Google Expands the Tau VM Family with Arm-Based Processors
Recently, Google announced its Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture of Compute Engine called Tau T2A. These VMs are the latest addition to the Tau VM family that offers VMs optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads and are available in preview.
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Google Cloud Introduces Optimized Rocky Linux Images for Customers Moving off CentOS
Google recently announced the general availability of Rocky Linux optimized for Google Cloud. The new images are customized variants of Rocky Linux, the open-source enterprise distribution compatible with Red Hat Enterprise.
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Google Cloud Announces Advanced API Security through Apigee
Recently Google announced the public preview of Advanced API Security, a comprehensive set of API security capabilities built on Apigee, their API management platform. With the new capability, customers can detect security threats more efficiently.
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PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner. The new interface increases the portability of workloads to and from Spanner and provides a globally distributed option to developers already familiar with PostgreSQL.
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Cockroach Labs 2022 Cloud Report: AMD Outperforms Intel
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report which evaluates the performance of AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for common OLTP workloads. Differently from the past, this year’s report does not indicate a best overall provider, but concludes that AMD instances outperform Intel ones. ARM instances were not covered in the tests.
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Google Cloud Introduces PostgreSQL-Compatible AlloyDB for Enterprise Database Workloads
Google Cloud recently announced AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a managed PostgreSQL-compatible service targeting enterprise deployments. AlloyDB is a full-featured cloud database supporting atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability (ACID)-compliant transactions.
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Google Cloud Introduces Media CDN for Content Delivery
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Media CDN, a content delivery network targeted to media and entertainment companies. The streaming platform supports advertising insertion and AI/ML analytics.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud TPU VMs
Last year Google introduced Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines in preview. Today, Cloud TPU VMs are generally available, including the new TPU Embedding API, which can accelerate ML Based ranking and recommendation workloads.
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Google Releases its Distributed Cloud Edge Offering into General Availability
Last month Google announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud Edge, including Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliances. The product is part of the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a fully-managed hardware and software portfolio that allows organizations to run workloads at the edge.
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Google Launches a New Cross-Platform Data Storage Engine BigLake in Preview
At the recent Cloud Data Summit, Google recently announced the preview of BigLake, a new data lake storage engine that makes it easier for enterprises to analyze the data in their data warehouses and data lakes.
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From Natural Language Queries to Insights: GCP BigQuery Data QnA Usage in Twitter
The Twitter engineering team has shared architectural details of their Qurious data insights platform and its advantages for real-time analysis. Designed for internal business customers, the platform allows users to analyze Twitter’s BigQuery data using natural language queries and create dashboards.
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Compute Engine VMs Cost Optimization with Suspend/Resume
Recently, Google announced the general availability of the Suspend/Resume feature for its Compute Engine VMs. The feature provides customers better control over Google Cloud resource consumption.
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Google Updates its Cloud MemoryStore with Read Replicas, RDB Snapshots, and Flushless Updates
Recently, Google announced a few updates for its Cloud MemoryStore, a fully-managed in-memory store compatible with open-source Redis. These updates are generally available (GA) Read Replicas, RDB (Redis database) snapshots in preview, and the launch of the flushless update for basic tier instances.