Every startup should have a lofty goal, even if they’re not 100% certain how they’ll reach it. Our company, BenchSci, is a Canadian biotech startup whose mission is to help scientists bring new medicines to patients 50% faster by 2025. Since founding the company in 2015, we’ve been building a platform to help scientists design […]
Data analysts can spend hours writing SQL each day to get the right insights. So it’s crucial that the tools in the Google Cloud Console make that job as easy and as fast as possible. Now, we’re excited to show you how BigQuery’s Cloud Console UI has been updated with radical usability improvements for more […]
Imagine this scenario: Your company has been using Google Cloud for a little while now. Things are going pretty well—no outages, no security breaches, and no unexpected costs. You’ve just begun to feel comfortable when an email comes in from a developer. She noticed that the project she works on has a service account with […]
I recently talked about orchestration versus choreography in connecting microservices and introduced Workflows for use cases that can benefit from a central orchestrator. I also mentioned Eventarc and Pub/Sub in the choreography camp for more loosely coupled event-driven architectures. In this blog post, I talk more about the unified eventing experience by Eventarc. What is […]
As we start the new year, we see ongoing revelations about an attack involving SolarWinds and others, that in turn led to the compromise of numerous other organizations. Software supply chain attacks like this pose a serious threat to governments, companies, non-profits, and individuals alike. At Google, we work around the clock to protect our […]
In our first blog post in this series, we talked broadly about the democratization of data and insights. Our second blog took a deeper look at insights derived specifically from machine learning, and how Google Cloud has worked to push those capabilities to more users across the data landscape. In our third and final blog […]
Do you have an application that’s a little… sluggish? Cloud Profiler, Google Cloud’s continuous application profiling tool, can quickly find poor performing code that slows your app performance and drives up your compute bill. In fact, by helping you find the source of memory leaks and other errors, Profiler has helped some of Google Cloud’s […]
Building an ELT pipeline using Google Sheets as an intermediary BigQuery offers the ability to quickly import a CSV file, both from the web user interface and from the command line: Limitations of autodetect and import This works for your plain-vanilla CSV files, but can fail on complex CSV files. As an example of a […]
Our “State of the API Economy 2021” report confirms that though digital transformation has been among enterprises’ top business imperatives for years, the COVID-19 pandemic and changing market conditions have increased this urgency. Organizations across the world weathered the pandemic by compressing years of digital transformation into just a few months. Our research reflects this […]
With over 3.7 million members, Ricardo is the most trusted, convenient, and largest online marketplace in Switzerland. We successfully migrated from on-prem to Google Cloud in 2019, a move that also raised some new use cases that we were keen to solve. With our on-premises data center closing, we were under deadline to find a […]