2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.Seeing one of our customers top 100,000 requests per second was the highlight of the year. That is enough capacity to answer a request by every single person on the planet in a single day. It feels that people can take our platform and change the world with new business models, cool applications, and knowledge sharing at a truly global level. The real exciting part for...
Friday, 27 December 2013
Thursday, 26 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.At the beginning of this month, we made Compute Engine Generally Available. It’s wonderful to see the great products our customers (like Brightcove, Cooladata, Evite, Fishlabs and Mendelics) are building on the Cloud Platform. And that they’re already seeing the benefits of Google’s scalability, reliability and consistently high performance. I’m also excited to see all...
Tuesday, 24 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.The addition of the PHP runtime to Google App Engine was undoubtedly the highpoint of my year. When we launched PHP support at Google I/O 2013, PHP was the top customer requested feature. By combining App Engine with Google Cloud SQL and Google Cloud Storage, we already see a number of pre-existing high-traffic PHP applications, like Motherboard, move to App Engine to...
Monday, 23 December 2013
Tools for monitoring, analyzing and optimizing cost have become an important part of managing cloud services. But these tools are difficult to build if the usage data is only in the Google Cloud Console. We are happy to announce a solution to this problem. The Billing Export feature addresses this need, and it is available in Preview. Once enabled, your daily Google Cloud Platform usage and cost estimates will be exported automatically to a CSV or...
Sunday, 22 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.Seeing customers like Snapchat grow on Google Cloud Platform is what gets me up in the morning. Its exciting to watch customers achieve new heights of scalability with less effort than was possible before. One of the features I worked on this year that was part of that scalability story is dedicated memcache. Dedicated memcache lets customers scale their caching capacity...
Saturday, 21 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.My highlight of this year was leading Google Cloud Platform talks and code labs in five cities around the world. Myself and colleagues gave talks about Google Compute Engine, App Engine, and the services that glue the fabric of the platform together. We had a great time speaking with all of the attendees, but my favorite part of this tour happened during one of the Google...
Friday, 20 December 2013
2013 was a busy year for Google Cloud Platform. Watch this space: each day, a different Googler who works on Cloud Platform will be sharing his or her highlight from the past year.My highlight from 2013 was speaking to developers from across the world at the Big Data Spain conference. I used the opportunity to share with people everything that we have accomplished with Big Query. Although every tool has its limits, it was a joy to review how many big data limits we broke during 2013. Some of the highlights included how to grow a database that already...
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