Entrepreneurs won BFCM, again. → Merchants’ sales globally were $14.6 billion, up 27% from last year → 81 million shoppers bought from Shopify-powered brands → 15,800 entrepreneurs made their first sale → 136 million packages tracked in the Shop App → 2.2 trillion edge requests → Processed and served 90 PB of data from our infrastructure → Handled 14.8 trillion database queries and 1.75 trillion database writes

Secure your data in #AlloyDB with precision! My latest blog post dives into how to implement fine-grained IAM permissions for robust security. Check it out: medium.com/@bjoernrost/fine-… #GoogleCloud #IAM

Google's latest version of AlloyDB Omni (Postgres 16.3 compatible) has a number of promising I/O performance features in preview: Streaming multiblock reads, O_DIRECT, torn write protection & asynchronous I/O with either io_uring (default) or libaio. cloud.google.com/alloydb/omn…

Have you heard that you can now create an #AlloyDB instance using the Google Axion CPU (C4A type) and with a minimal configuration of only 1 CPU and 8Gb memory. That's probably the ideal developments, demos and functional testing. Give it a try . @googledevs #Postgres

Big news for big data! 🚀 AlloyDB now integrates with BigLake tables for Apache Iceberg. This is a game-changer for your Google Data Cloud & Lakehouse architecture! Read more: cloud.google.com/blog/produc… #AlloyDB #BigLake #ApacheIceberg #GCP #GoogleCloud

Watch our new video to see how a leading Google Cloud partner, Snowdrop, leverages AlloyDB and Gemini to process billions of transactions, enabling advanced AI-powered merchant matching (including vector search & translation!). google.smh.re/4vhC

We look forward to welcoming @wiz_io to @GoogleCloud! Together, we believe we will make it easier and faster for all organizations to protect themselves against cybersecurity incidents across all major clouds and code environments.

I’m speaking at Google Cloud Next 25 about AlloyDB Omni on Kubernetes along with local AI models on Apr-11 at 11AM PDT . Join the discussion with @GoogleCloud → g.co/cloudnext

Published a short video about RAG and interactive apps on Youtube. Have a look and let me know what you think. @googledevs @googleaidevs youtu.be/tgcixab_Yk8?feature…

The "generate git commit" feature in Google Gemini Code Assist plugin for IntelliJ is mind-blowing to me. I'm utterly stunned to what extent it describes not just the changes, but also its uncanny ability to glean WHY the changes were made, is melting my head. This description below is so freaking helpful — there are so many changes in the past I wish I could have documented this way! cc @rseroter @nathenharvey @DynamicWebPaige @matvelloso @Steve_Yegge PS: I wish there was a "fast mode" for this feature — often I just want whatever it can generate in 5 seconds, because that's infinitely better than me typing "fixed". (Sometimes I don't want to wait the 15s for the incredible thorough version.)

We've got the most YouTube subscribers (1m !) of any cloud provider, but @googlecloud videos don't go viral too often. That's expected. But this one—"Translating baby sounds using Google AI"—is closing on 150k views in 4 days! Fun demo. youtube.com/watch?v=BvXXgcBS…

Hey look at that. @googlecloud Spanner Graph is now GA. All the fun parts of a graph database, but with the unique power of Spanner. The new open source graphing tool for @GoogleColab is kinda awesome. Lots of other GA features ... cloud.google.com/blog/produc…

wow, found a rare interview of a DeepSeek co-founder talking about his first AI startup exit a few years ago

How to build interactive Gen AI applications with Vertex AI youtu.be/tgcixab_Yk8?si=AU9g… via @YouTube

What if your database workload has ups and downs with not entirely predictable cycles? I’ve published a blog on how to implement autoscale for AlloyDB using Cloud Monitoring, Pub/Sub and Cloud Run Functions. @googledevs @googlecloud #AlloyDB #Autoscaling medium.com/google-cloud/allo…

Can we now have this Canada back? youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk0…

Folks who are developing apps with a local PostgreSQL, how do you manage the database? Running on a container? Persisting volume how?

Yesterday was an incredible day for our merchants and for Shopify: * Merchants drove a record-breaking $5 billion Black Friday in sales (GMV) * Peak sales / minute for yesterday = $4.6 million * Shopify's egress processed more than 173B requests * Peak requests per minute was at 284 million on edge, with more than 80 million on app servers pushing 12TB a minute * 45 million peak database queries per second, peak database writes was 7.6 million per second * We rely on Kafka. At peak we hit 66 million messages per second Let's keep going 🔥

please don't tell my mom that some of my colleagues got nobel prizes the bar is already high enough

My next 30 Days is all on exploring GenAI stuff across all platforms. Sharing secong post on how to ingrate Ollama models with AlloyDB OMNI all running on my laptop! #AlloyDB #Ollama #Embedding medium.com/google-cloud/ai-o…