At Wayfair, we use data to advance our business processes and help our suppliers work more efficiently, all with the end goal of delivering great customer experiences. As one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home, our massive scale allows us to use data to delight our customers and help our thousands of […]
This year presented many unforeseen and unthinkable global challenges. From shifting to remote work and providing essential services to affected communities to working tirelessly to keep the economy afloat. Many of us often wished there was a magic formula to help smooth these transitions. And while a magic formula might not exist, many governments across […]
Earlier this year, we announced Cloud Load Balancer support for Cloud Run. You might wonder, aren’t Cloud Run services already load-balanced? Yes, each *.run.app endpoint load balances traffic between an autoscaling set of containers. However, with the Cloud Balancing integration for serverless platforms, you can now fine tune lower levels of your networking stack. In […]
On June 15, 2020 we announced the general availability of the Google Maps Platform Gaming solution, including the Maps SDK for Unity and Playable Locations API, to officially bring our knowledge of the world to all games built with Unity for the first time. The goal of the Gaming solution is to enable developers to […]
Database Migration Service (DMS) provides high-fidelity, minimal downtime migrations for MySQL (Preview) and PostgreSQL (available in Preview by request) workloads to Cloud SQL. Since DMS is serverless, you don’t have to worry about provisioning, managing, or monitoring any migration-specific resources. In this post, we’ll focus on what is and is not included in database migration […]
Improving education in the midst of a pandemic is the challenge of our time. To help with this, many institutions are turning to cloud tools to rapidly innovate on behalf of students. Some of the education leaders who have taken on this work over the past year will join us to share their insights and […]
We launched BigQuery ML, an integrated part of Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse, in 2018 as a SQL interface for training and using linear models. Many customers with a large amount of data in BigQuery started using BigQuery ML to remove the need for data ETL, since it brought ML directly to their stored data. […]
Why do we use more than one thing to solve a particular need? Sometimes we don’t have a choice. All my financial assets aren’t in one place because my employer-provided retirement account is at a different financial institution than my personal account. Other times, we purposely diversify. I could buy all my clothes at one […]
The bigger a cloud environment, the more important it is to have robust cost management tools, including budget automation capabilities. Budgeting tools can help you avoid unnecessary costs via proactive notifications of future (and actual) overages. Billing automation can help you support multiple budgets, each with very granular filters (we have customers with thousands of […]
In recent years the patent industry has begun to use machine-learning (ML) algorithms to add efficiency and insights to business practices. Any company, patent office, or academic institution that works with patents—generating them through innovation, processing applications about them, or developing sophisticated ways to analyze them—will benefit from doing patent analytics and machine learning in […]