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Cloud Spanner hits GA, Cloud TPU, and Cloud IoT Core

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Spanner is a distributed database Google initiated a while ago to build a highly available and highly consistent database for its own…

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Google my Business gives you the ability to present your business location on google maps and in search results.

Google has taken the world by storm on social networking, mapping, and TV/video and its search results are growing evermore loaded.

I have always been one of Google's early-adopters, ever since the initial roll out of Gmail.  Back in those days, it felt like Google was always experimenting with things and trying to find problems to solve, even though they began life as a search company.  I attribute this digital wanderlust to the old twenty percent...

A rare look inside one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated data center

The Google Cloud Platform Podcast, coming to you every week. Discussing everything on Google Cloud Platform from App Engine to BigQuery.

Google Cloud Spanner is the first and only relational database service that is both strongly consistent and horizontally scalable. Here we're looking at a re...

Eric Brewer 2017 Whitepaper on Spanner

‘Spanner,’ responsible for keeping more than 2,000 of its services running,

What is the internet? Short answer: a distributed packet-switched network. This is the introduction video to the series, "How the Internet Works". Vint Ce...

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After Motorola gave them to Google

'I'm not sure Google is trying to maximize profits'

Mountain View wants your exabyte

The Net’s basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It’s time for a clean-slate app

Sub-nanosecond precision clock synchronization over the packet network has been achieved by the White Rabbit protocol for a decade. However, few computer systems utilize such a technique. We try...

Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database service, offers customers ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability.

On any other day, the cloud press might have been going crazy over AWS's new WebEx-style communication service Chime, and perhaps AWS's new Elastic Block Store volumes, as well. But yesterday was not any other day: It was the day that Google announced its long-awaited Spanner database as a service (more detail on that later).What we're seeing in the increasingly heated battle between the two companies, encapsulated by yesterday's news, is that AWS has inherited the DNA of its parent company, bett

The move brings an end to the former auto executive’s leadership of Google parent Alphabet’s driverless car effort.

Learn how a Spanner-like globally-consistent multi-region deployment of YugabyteDB can run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and other Kubernetes distributions and managed services (including Amazon EKS and Azure Kubernetes Service)