In June, we had a lot to discuss about getting the most out of the cloud for your business, from speeding up web traffic to running fully managed apps easily. Here’s a quick look at some of the highlights from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) news this month. ... more
By Melody Meckfessel and Eric Brewer, Vice Presidents, Google Cloud, and Miles Ward, Director of Solution Architecture, Google Cloud Open clouds matter more now than ever. While most companies today use a single public cloud provider in addition to their ... more
By Tony Lusk, Customer Engineer Who enjoys doing risky development on their SAP system? No one. But if you need to build enterprise apps that use your SAP backend, not doing development is a non-starter. One solution is to apply Gartner’s Bimodal IT, ... more
By Steren Giannini, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform Developers love Google App Engine’s zero-config deployments, zero server management and auto-scaling capabilities. At Google Cloud, our goal is to help you be more productive by supporting more ... more
By Dmytro Melnyk, Product Marketing Manager Do you want to build applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) but have no idea where to start? That was me, just a few months ago, before I joined the Google Cloud compute team. To prepare for my interview, ... more
By Nikhil Kaul, Product Marketing Manager If your goal is to release software continuously at high velocity, you need to be able to automatically build, test, deploy, and debug your code changes, all within minutes. But first you need to integrate your ... more
By Gabe Weiss, Developer Advocate One of the best parts about working at Google is the incredible diversity of interests. By day, I’m a Developer Advocate focused on IoT paid to write code to show you how easy it is to develop solutions with Google technology. ... more
By Nicolas Lacasse, Software Engineer Containers have revolutionized how we develop, package, and deploy applications. However, the system surface exposed to containers is broad enough that many security experts don't recommend them for running untrusted ... more
By Mani Doraisamy, founder at Guesswork.co and Google Developer Expert [ Editor’s note : Mani Doraisamy built two products—Guesswork.co and CommerceDNA—on top of Google Cloud Platform. In this blog post he shares insights into how his application architecture ... more
By Aaron Small, Product Manager, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Vic Iglesias, Cloud Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Platform Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of blog posts on container security at Google. It’s only been a few months since ... more
By Sandeep Dinesh, Developer Advocate Editor’s note : Today marks the first installment in a seven-part video and blog series from Google Developer Advocate Sandeep Dinesh on how to get the most out of your Kubernetes environment. Today he tackles the ... more
By Dan Aharon, Product Manager, Cloud AI Back in November, we announced the beta of Dialogflow Enterprise Edition. Today, on the heels of introducing Cloud Text-to-Speech and updating Cloud Speech-to-Text, we’re releasing Dialogflow Enterprise Edition ... more
By Priya Wadhwa, Software Engineer Building images from a standard Dockerfile typically relies upon interactive access to a Docker daemon, which requires root access on your machine to run. This can make it difficult to build container images in environments ... more
By Brian Granatir, SmartCloud Engineering Team Lead, Smart Parking Part 2 In this article, we’re going to explore how to build an event-driven architecture on serverless services to solve a complex, real-world problem. In this case, we’re building a smart ... more
By Brian Granatir, SmartCloud Engineering Team Lead, Smart Parking Part 3 You made it through all the fluff and huff! Welcome to the main event. Time for us to explore some key concepts in depth. Of course, we won't have time to cover everything. If you ... more
By Emily Ye, Software Engineer, Google and Akshath Kumar, Site Reliability Engineer, WePay Applications often require secrets such as credentials at build- or run-time. These credentials are an assertion of a service’s or user’s identity that they can ... more
By Morgan McLean, Product Manager, John Bryan, Software Engineer, and Dave Raffensberger, Software Engineer Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides developers and operators with fine-grained billing and resource access management for separate applications ... more
By Chris Broadfoot, Developer Relations There are many reasons to automate your deployments: consistency, safety, and timeliness. These increase in value as your software becomes more critical to your business. In this post, I'll demonstrate how easy ... more
By Colt McAnlis, Developer Advocate In March of this year, we kicked off a new content initiative called Cloud Performance Atlas, where we highlight best practices for GCP performance, and how to solve the most common performance issues that cloud developers ... more
By Marc Cohen, Developer Advocate If you’ve ever created any sort of interactive content that involves code—a tutorial, codelab, a demo—you know that setup and installation can be the most time consuming and painful parts of the experience for your users. ... more
By Robert van Gent and Stephen Thorne, Customer Reliability Engineers and Cody Smith, Site Reliability Engineer In a previous episode of CRE Life Lessons, we discussed how choosing good service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs) ... more
By Quan To, Product Manager Deploying open-source solutions in the cloud usually means a lot of work keeping up-to-date with security hotfixes and version updates. Our Cloud Launcher marketplace provides production-grade solutions that you can launch ... more
By Nelson Araujo, Software Engineer Managing cloud resources is a critical part of the application lifecycle. That’s why today, we released and open sourced a set of comprehensive cookbooks for Chef users to manage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources. ... more
By Brent Shaffer and Takashi Matsuo, Developer Programs Engineer, Google Cloud Platform Earlier this year, we announced PHP 7.1 Google App Engine in beta. We PHP lovers at Google are proud to announce that PHP 7.1 is now generally available on Google ... more
By Justin Beckwith, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform We’ve all been there. The code looked fine on your machine, but now you’re in production and it’s suddenly not working. Tools like Stackdriver Error Reporting can make it easier to know when something ... more
By Dan Ciruli, Product Manager The shift from on-premises to cloud computing is rarely sudden and rarely complete. Workloads move over time; in some cases new workloads get built in the cloud and old workloads stay on-premises. In other cases, organizations ... more
By Sujoy Gupta, Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Platform Are you a web developer who creates websites and a different team, usually the marketing team, manages the content? Traditionally, there have been two ways to do that — neither of them great. ... more
By Nelson Araujo, Software Engineer The ability to control resources programmatically with tools they know and love can make a big difference for developers creating cloud-native applications. That’s why today, we released and open sourced a set of comprehensive ... more
By Chang Luo and Bob Liu, Software Engineers In part 1 of this blogpost, we gave you an overview of what a conversational tour guide iOS app might look like built on Cloud Machine Learning APIs and API.AI. We also demonstrated how to create API.AI intents ... more