Tag: Google
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Building a real-time video AI service with Google Gemini
Posted on July 16, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
The article describes the development of a real-time video AI service for a major global service provider, leveraging Google Gemini's Multimodal Live API and Akka's SDK. The team successfully built, deployed, and scaled the service to handle thousands of transactions per second, far exceeding customer requirements. Key components included video ingestion, augmentation, and conversational storage, all deployed within a private Akka environment provisioned in a Google VPC in just 2 hours. By Johan Andrén.
Tags akka java ai app-development google
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Why Go rocks for building a Lua interpreter
Posted on June 28, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length short
The interpreter's structure in Go is divided into packages for scanning, parsing, and execution, leveraging Go's interfaces for Lua value representation. This design choice, along with Go's garbage collector and testing tools, simplified development compared to the PUC-Rio Lua implementation. Challenges included error handling and compatibility issues with Lua's standard libraries. Nice one!
Tags programming golang app-development web-development google
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Evogene and Google Cloud unveil foundation model for generative molecule design
Posted on June 18, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Evogene and Google Cloud are accelerating life science discovery with ChemPass AI, a generative AI foundation model focused on small-molecule design. Launched in May, this collaboration dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with identifying novel drug candidates and crop protection agents. ChemPass AI's core strength lies in its ability to simultaneously optimize multiple critical properties – potency, toxicity, stability, and bioavailability – within a single molecule generation cycle, surpassing previous approaches. By Antoine Tardif.
Tags cloud data-science gcp big-data google
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Exclusive-OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry
Posted on June 15, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
OpenAI is collaborating with Alphabet's Google Cloud, a move designed to address the escalating demand for high-powered computing infrastructure required by AI models. The agreement, finalized in May, represents a substantial expansion of Google's cloud services, signaling a broadening strategic focus beyond Microsoft's Azure. By CNA.
Tags cloud ai gcp google
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Angular 2025 strategy
Posted on January 26, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
For the past two and a half years, we've been laser focused on improving developer experience and performance for all Angular developers. In this post, I'd like to share a brief summary of the high-level process that we've been following to achieve this and describe our strategy for 2025. By Minko Gechev.
Tags angular web-development javascript google
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New Google AI tools 2025: Gemini 2.0, Astra, Veo 2 & Trillium chips
Posted on January 4, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google's new AI tools are designed to make life easier, faster, and more accurate. As a CTO, you should keep an eye on these developments, as they have the potential to disrupt industries and drive innovation. By Alex McFarland.
Tags ai google software big-data cio data-science
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Laying the foundation for a career in platform engineering
Posted on November 15, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length long
Imagine that you're an engineer at the company Acme Corp and you've been tasked with some big projects: integrating and delivering software using CI/CD and automation, as well as implementing data-driven metrics and observability tools. But many of your fellow engineers are struggling because there's too much cognitive load — think deploying and automating Kubernetes clusters, configuring CI/CD pipelines, and worrying about security. By Darren Evans and Yuriy Babenko.
Tags career cloud gcp teams google devops
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Gmail rolling out Gemini-powered contextual smart replies
Posted on October 26, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Following the announcement at I/O 2024, Google is now rolling out Contextual Smart Replies to Gmail for Android and iOS. Compared to Smart Reply, which dates back to 2017, the contextual version is "meant for detailed responses." Gemini "can analyze the context of an email" and suggest replies that are "tailored to your conversation." By Abner Li.
Tags miscellaneous google apis ai
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8 essential Android 15 security features you should set up immediately
Posted on October 1, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google has released Android 15, which includes several significant security enhancements. These updates focus on privacy and theft protection, such as Private space, which allows users to create a separate, secure area on their device for sensitive data and apps1. Additionally, theft protection features include automatic device locking if theft is detected and preventing factory resets without authentication. By Parth Shah.
Tags android learning app-development infosec google
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Google Cloud launches Memorystore for Valkey
Posted on September 10, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The Memorystore team is thrilled to announce the preview launch of Valkey 7.2 support on Memorystore to provide users with a truly open-source and high performance key-value service. The introduction of Memorystore for Valkey into the Memorystore portfolio alongside Memorystore for Redis Cluster and Memorystore for Redis is a direct response to customer demand, and is a game-changer for organizations seeking high-performance data management solutions relying on 100% open source software. By Kyle Meggs, Ping Xie.
Tags database microservices google software-architecture
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Google now uses Open Graph title tag (og:title) for title links
Posted on August 23, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length short
Google adds og:title to sources for generating search result titles, expanding use of Open Graph data beyond social media. By Matt G. Southern.
Tags search miscellaneous software google
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How Google's AI model Gemini got its name
Posted on July 8, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length short
Gemini got its first mention at I/O in 2023, when we briefly shared our first natively multimodal model was in training and already showing impressive capabilities. One year later, we've brought Gemini models to Search, Ads, Workspace, Pixel and more. As Gemini continues to make a name for itself, we wondered, where did that name come from? To find out, we asked the Google DeepMind team to share the origin story behind why they called it "Gemini." By Ari Marini.
Tags google ai how-to cloud frameworks