Stackdriver Profiler adds more languages and new analysis features

Historically, cloud developers have had limited visibility into the impact of their code changes. Profiling non-production deployments doesn’t yield useful results, and profiling tools used in production are typically expensive, with a performance impact ... more

Introducing WebSockets support for App Engine Flexible Environment

Do you have an application that could benefit from being able to stream data from the app to the client with minimal latency—without the client having to poll for updates? Today, we are excited to announce that App Engine Flexible Environment now supports ... more

NoSQL for the serverless age: Announcing Cloud Firestore general availability and updates

As modern application development moves away from managing infrastructure and toward a serverless future, we're pleased to announce the general availability of Cloud Firestore, our serverless, NoSQL document database. We're also making it available in ... more

How we built a derivatives exchange with BigQuery ML for Google Next ‘18

Financial institutions have a natural desire to predict the volume, volatility, value or other parameters of financial instruments or their derivatives, to manage positions and mitigate risk more effectively. They also have a rich set of business problems ... more

Build a custom data viz with Data Studio community visualizations

Data Studio, Google’s free data visualization and business intelligence product, lets you easily connect to and report on data from hundreds of data sources. Over the past year, we’ve added more than 75 new features to Data Studio. We’ve heard from users ... more

A simple blueprint for building AI-powered customer service on GCP

As a Google Cloud customer engineer based in Amsterdam, I work with a lot of banks and insurance companies in the Netherlands. All of them have this common requirement: to help customer service agents (many of whom are poorly trained interns due to the ... more

Get Go-ing with Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language

Since releasing Node.js and Python as supported languages for Google Cloud Functions this summer, our team has been hard at work. Today, we're excited to announce support for Go on Cloud Functions. Now in beta, the runtime uses the latest version, Go ... more

Building Google's Game of the Year with Cloud Text-to-Speech and App Engine

At the end of every year, we take a look at Google Search trends, culminating in our annual Year in Search film. This year, we decided to also build Game of the Year, the first quiz game based on Google Search trends. We thought it would be fun to bring ... more

Every GCP blog post from 2018

Looking for a little light reading over the holidays? Below, we’ve compiled a list of all 557 (!) blog posts we published on GCP in 2018. Pro tip : Although we’ve listed these posts by month, you can also find them grouped by themes by clicking our topic ... more

Cloud Functions pro tips: Retries and idempotency in action

If you’ve been following our Cloud Functions pro tips series, you’ll recall previous blog posts where we showed you how to improve reliability of a serverless solution by retrying function executions and making functions idempotent. Now, it’s time to ... more

Cloud SQL now supports private connections and App Engine second generation runtimes

Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that makes MySQL and PostgreSQL instances accessible from just about any application, anywhere. Today, we’re pleased to bring updates to the top-requested connection ... more

AI in depth: profiling the model training process for TensorFlow on Cloud ML Engine

If you've usedCloud Machine Learning (ML) Engine, you know that it can train and deploy any TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and XGBoost models at large scale in the cloud. But did you know that Cloud ML Engine also allows you to use TensorFlow’s profiling ... more

Cloud Storage requests create data art and usage insights

The basic expectation of storage technology is that you put bytes in and you get bytes back. But storage is more insightful than you might think. At the scale of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), storage gives us a glimpse into how the world is interacting ... more

Cloud Identity for Customers and Partners (CICP) is now in beta and ready to use

In October at Next ’18 London, we announced Cloud Identity for Customers and Partners (CICP) to help you add Google-grade identity and access management (IAM) functionality to your apps, protect user accounts, and scale with confidence—even if those ... more

How to connect Cloudera’s CDH to Cloud Storage

If you are running CDH, Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop, we aim to provide you with first-class integration on Google Cloud so you can run a CDH cluster with Cloud Storage integration. In this post, we’ll help you get started deploying the Cloud Storage ... more

Node.js 10 available for App Engine, in lockstep with Long Term Support

Today, the Node.js Release Working Group began the Long Term Support (LTS) of Node.js 10.x, establishing it as the preferred, stable version of the runtime. App Engine, our fully managed serverless application platform, has supported Node.js as a runtime ... more

Serverless from the ground up: Building a simple microservice with Cloud Functions (Part 1)

Do your company’s employees rely on multiple scattered systems and siloed data to do their jobs? Do you wish you could easily stitch all these systems together, but can’t figure out how? Turns out there’s an easy way to combine these different systems ... more

Get more control over your Compute Engine resources with new Cloud IAM features

Today, we are introducing two new Cloud IAM features, resource-level IAM and IAM conditions, to help you better manage security and access control in Google Compute Engine. Resource-level IAM allows you to set IAM policies on individual resources like ... more

Simplifying identity and access management for more businesses

Effective identity management underpins the modern enterprise, and Google has been hard at work to provide simple, secure solutions for administrators and developers. In March, we launched Cloud Identity to help customers manage users, devices and apps ... more

Accelerate with APIs: Apigee API monitoring, extensions and hosted targets now generally available

APIs are a key way businesses operate at the speed and scale necessary for today’s economy. We designed Apigee, Google Cloud’s full lifecycle API Management platform, to give businesses control over, and visibility into, the APIs that connect applications ... more

Simplifying ML predictions with Google Cloud Functions

If you develop on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and haven’t already tried out Cloud Functions, our serverless event-driven platform, it’s worth taking a look. Our favorite part about Cloud Functions is that you can use it to connect all sorts of services ... more

Unlock insights with ease: Data Studio and Cloud Dataprep are now generally available

We build products at Google Cloud to make life easier for our customers—to enable them to organize, access, and understand their world of information. Although different businesses have different needs, virtually all of them want a comprehensive view ... more

Introducing new Cloud Source Repositories

At Google, we spend a lot of time each day working with code. As Google has grown and the code base has increased in complexity, Google engineers have built a set of code tools to help our developers stay happy and productive each day. One particularly ... more

Ethereum in BigQuery: how we built this dataset

In this blog post, we’ll share more on how we built theBigQuery Ethereum Public Dataset that contains the Ethereum blockchain data. This includes the primary data structures—blocks, transactions—as well as high-value data derivatives—token transfers, ... more

Last month today: August on GCP

In August, we followed up Next ‘18 with some deeper dives on new features and enhancements across Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Here are some of the most-read blog posts this month. We announced the general availability of Cloud Functions this month. ... more

Ethereum in BigQuery: a Public Dataset for smart contract analytics

Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists. Digital currencies are only one application of the underlying blockchain technology. Earlier this year, we made the Bitcoin dataset publicly ... more

Accelerating software teams with Cloud Build

By Melody Meckfessel, Vice President, Engineering, Google Cloud Software development has come a long way from the days of “it compiles, ship it!” Today’s software teams need to deliver more business value faster than ever—in an environment where the pace ... more

On GCP, your database your way

By Brad Calder, VP of engineering, GCP When choosing a cloud to host your applications, you want a portfolio of database options—SQL, NoSQL, relational, non-relational, scale up/down, scale in/out, you name it—so you can use the right tool for the job. ... more

Bringing the best of serverless to you

By Eyal Manor, Vice President, Engineering Every business wants to innovate—and deliver—great software, faster. In recent years, serverless computing has changed application development, bringing the focus on the application logic instead of infrastructure. ... more

Google Home meets .NET containers using Dialogflow

By Mete Atamel, Developer Advocate I use my Google Home all the time to check the weather before leaving home, set up alarms, listen to music, but I never considered writing an app for it. What does it take to write an app for the Google Home assistant? ... more