One Agent Development Kit, five languages
When we talk about agents, that doesn't necessarily mean we're talking about Python. In today's modern ecosystem, an agent might run as a high-concurrency Go microservice on Cloud Run, or live inside
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When we talk about agents, that doesn't necessarily mean we're talking about Python. In today's modern ecosystem, an agent might run as a high-concurrency Go microservice on Cloud Run, or live inside
A decade ago, Google released Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems with O'Reilly Media. What began as a collection of our practices for managing large-scale infrastructure
Imagine your compliance team notices that payments are taking longer than expected to clear. They suspect fraud, and you’re the data scientist helping figure out which transactions to investigate firs
Overview Since introducing zero-shot time-series forecasting in BigQuery with AI.FORECAST — initially powered by TimesFM 2.0 and later upgraded to TimesFM 2.5 — you have been able to generate forecast
As a business intelligence user, this probably sounds familiar: Most dashboards only provide you with a standardized canvas and a fixed library of charts, and the “analysis” consists of a CSV export t
Alteryx One Live Query and Google Cloud BigQuery redefine how enterprises handle complex, unstructured data at scale by reducing reliance on disconnected tools, minimizing data movement, and enabling
Today, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate effici
Public research universities solve some of society’s most urgent challenges, but turning ideas into breakthroughs requires fast, secure access to cutting edge technology. In the agentic AI era institu
In recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning government agencies, established enterprise brands, and grow
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your
In capital markets, operational success is built on predictable performance and low latency, where even tiny variations in packet timing alter queue priority and trade execution. At the same time, bot
For modern AI and RAG applications, achieving high search relevance requires that you combine at least two techniques: vector search for semantic context, and full-text search (FTS) for keyword precis
Co-authors:Stenal Jolly, Strategic Cloud Engineer, GoogleAnubhav Dhawan, Software Engineer, Google Following the landmark announcement of MCP Toolbox v1.0, we're thrilled to announce that the MCP Tool
As customers modernize to lakehouse architectures, they are standardizing on open formats such as Apache Iceberg to create a shared data estate across compatible engines. This enables you to build AI-
Enterprises and individual developers frequently run multiple AI inference models. The right architecture can simplify how the models are called while also providing centralized governance. In this po
Across the public sector, the question has shifted from “what’s possible?” to “how can we drive mission impact?” We’ll be answering this question at the Google Public Sector Summit on October 20th at
Today, we’re announcing Google Cloud Modernize, an end-to-end transformation portfolio to help enterprises collapse multi-year roadmaps with the power of AI. Google Cloud Modernize brings together Goo
Editor’s note: AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent optimization
AI agents don't just answer queries — they can autonomously issue refunds, manage inventory, execute multi-step handoffs, and orchestrate sub-agents, to name but a few complex agentic workflows. That
Whether you’re launching microservices in response to sudden traffic spikes, deploying new software releases, or scaling up application replicas, pod startup time is critical to maintaining a fast, re
Enterprise AI agents need persistent memory to execute complex, multi-day workflows and long-horizon tasks. In this blog, we examine how a 2-tier memory architecture using Memorystore for Valkey for s
This is the first of a two-part series exploring how Google Cloud is bringing the foundational values of a high-performance parallel filesystem–TB/s throughput, sub-ms latency at high client scale, an
For years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices. With the release of Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, Swift has matured into a premier systems with cloud en
The browser has changed significantly. Rather than just a window to the web, it serves as an AI workspace and central operating environment for the modern enterprise. With knowledge workers spending o
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Alicja Cade and Nick Godfrey, senior directors, Office of the CISO, share their guidance for cybersecurity startups on how to w
Today, Google Cloud Data Agent Kit is generally available. Data Agent Kit is a free set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools and agent skills that lets the coding agent you already use work directly
Today, we’re expanding our ecosystem of managed remote MCP servers by introducing the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server in preview. Powered by the popular gcloud and bq (BigQuery) command-line tools,
Spanner Omni, the deploy-anywhere version of Spanner, is now generally available, ready to power your most demanding production workloads in your on-premises data center or on other clouds. With Spann
Written by: Robin Grunewald, Supriya Mazumdar, Kelli Vanderlee Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) examines vulnerability disclosure and exploitation statistics to evaluate the impact
When scaling up agentic reinforcement learning (RL) and evaluation across massive parallel rollouts, frontier AI labs inevitably hit a bottleneck: Expensive GPU clusters sit idle, waiting minutes for
Over the last three decades in cybersecurity, I’ve witnessed major paradigm shifts — yet none match the velocity and complexity of today’s landscape. Attackers are now using AI to move at machine spee
As threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate and develop cyberattacks, enterprise defenders need to rely on both AI and a critical defender’s advantage: Business context that only you possess. E
Graph engineering is the design work: breaking a task into nodes, connecting them with edges, and deciding where code, models, or people control the next step. The Agent Development Kit (ADK)'s Workfl
Whether you are mapping global forest cover, detecting changes in the built environment, or monitoring agricultural yields, writing scripts in Google Earth Engine is a powerful way to develop these in
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Storage-optimized Z4D machine series in Google Compute Engine with both Virtual Machine (VM) and bare-metal instances.
Every week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core p
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a keystone of modern LLM post-training, but it demands large training clusters and access to model internals that external customers can't have with proprietary mo
The volume of data being generated today brings both opportunity and massive operational complexity. Most teams that operate at scale don't discover issues until they appear on an invoice — and by the
At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Memorystore for Valkey 9.1, which achiev
Entire database engineering careers have been spent on a single question: How do you scale an OLTP workload without compromising the system of record that owns the data? Exadata answered the question
In this episode of The Agent Factory, we explore the reality of building with autonomous agents alongside Ryan Lopopolo, a software engineer at Google Cloud and the person who coined the term agent ha
Enterprises rely on mission-critical operational databases where performance slowdowns simply aren’t an option. Yet when even a few agents execute dense reasoning loops, the unpredictable surge in que
We’re excited and proud to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader for the fourth year in a row in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, based on its Completeness of
The availability of resources for AI workloads can be challenging across the industry, especially accelerators. This can slow your AI workload deployment if it’s built around a specific type of accele
Latin America’s small and medium-sized businesses are the heartbeat of the region's economy — accounting for more than 60% of total employment in the region, according to United Nations estimates. And
Enterprises are increasingly standardizing on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to run their most critical and AI-driven workloads. From Cloud Storage FUSE for high-throughput data access to custom compu
Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enter
Introduction The landscape of software supply chain security has undergone a significant shift. Recent campaigns demonstrate that sophisticated threat actors are systematically targeting the engineeri
Scribd, Inc. is home to one of the world's largest collections of human-created content. Scribd’s products leverage one of the world's largest collections of human-created content and intelligent tool
Google Cloud has become the platform of choice for startups building AI. Our uniquely complete stack — including a choice of first- and third-party compute and models; our platform for building and ma
In real-time streaming, every millisecond counts. For example, at 30 frames per second (fps), developers have a strict frame budget of just 33.3 ms (and only 16.6 ms at 60 fps) to ingest camera frames
Earlier this year, we announced native support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) custom metrics. This milestone allowed you to scrap external adapters and instead collect autoscaling metrics directly
For years, the workday looked remarkably consistent. Employees logged into devices, opened browsers and toggled across a dozen disconnected applications. Users acted as the bridge between apps, copyin
Demand for AI infrastructure is at an all-time high. Global accelerator shortages mean engineering teams can rarely get all the compute they need from just one data center — capacity comes a cluster h
The surge in AI development has created unprecedented demand for compute capacity around the globe. This can have negative implications for data processing and pipelines with Apache Spark. Whether you
When running modern AI workloads, there’s often a conflict between performance and cost. Workloads like large language models (LLMs) load massive files, and may serve thousands of AI agents that need
Today, we are excited to announce enhancements to the borderless Lakehouse, our answer to how data engineers, data scientists, and increasingly, AI agents, can query governed data directly where it li
Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings are
AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But as code generation scales, so do the challenges of securing the code, especially emerging AI-based vulnerability exploitations. To
As enterprises invest in generative AI, tech leaders keep seeing the same pattern: Developers test AI tools for a week, hit setup problems, and then drift back to the backlog. Nothing ships. The real