Today's top topics from The Overwhelmed Person’s Guide to Google Cloud: 📧 How @Gmail moved to Spanner ➕ cheaper and better Gemini models 🦊 continuous delivery with 🦊 GitLab Read them all here ↓ cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

The Vertex AI Gemini API safety toolkit is like having Messi's bodyguard to protect your applications. Hear from Champion Innovator Patty O'Callaghan on how the safety kit built into the Vertex Gemini API gives your #generativeAI applications a digital bouncer ↓

What music gets you in the zone for coding? 🎶 Drop your favorite playlist in the comments ↓

Demo day: How to efficiently search for images and videos using text-based queries. Learn to upload media to Google Cloud Storage, create #BigQuery object tables, generate embeddings, and perform semantic searches to enhance your search experience → goo.gle/4gj4bT9

Meet Dominic Imbuga, winner of the Customer-Facing Bot category of the Vertex AI Agent Builder Hackathon for his Kalaha agent. Hear how he built it using Google Cloud to promote health education in Kenya ↓

In honor of #BackToSchool season, what's your preferred way to learn new tech skills?

Historically, LLMs were significantly limited by the amount of text (or tokens) that could be passed to the model at one time. The Gemini 1.5 context window, with near-perfect retrieval (>99%), unlocks many new use cases and developer paradigms. Take a look ↓

We sat down with Googlers and asked them what Google Cloud tools add 🪄 magic ✨ to their projects. From Cloud Run to global availability, check out the features that continue to wow them ↓

📣After published the first releases of BigTesty, an #opensource lib and an #integrationtesting framework for #BigQuery, I written a new article on this topic BigTesty allows to test SQL queries with: 📦PyPi package 🐳Docker image ⬛CLI Google Cloud Tech medium.com/google-cloud/b…

Imagine: Designing prompts to create photorealistic images with Google’s highest-quality text-to-image model, Imagen 3 on Vertex AI. Here's how ↓

What do you spend most of your time on during an average workday? ⚪ Coding ⚪ Writing docs ⚪ Debugging ⚪ Hoping your code doesn't break something 🔘 All of the above

Google Cloud Tip: Instead of setting up locally, use Cloud Shell to get started in 5 minutes or less! Check out this guide to get started ↓ cloud.google.com/shell/docs/dep…

✨Google✨Cloud✨Skills✨Boost✨Spotlight✨ Take the Manage K8s in Google Cloud quest & learn how to: - Manage deployments using K8s Engine - Debugging apps on #GKE - Collect metrics from exporters using the managed service for Prometheus Start here → goo.gle/4gqYBhB

Why are we hosting a Python workshop on land? Because it's above C level! If you want fewer dad jokes and more expert insights into how to develop and deploy a #generativeAI Python app hosted on Google Cloud, sign up for this session on September 10 → goo.gle/3X64Ii8

Even more 🍨 ice cream 🍦 content! Building off my last post on generative AI for products, I show how to create recommendations for similar products at scale using @GoogleCloud BigQuery, Vertex AI, embeddings, & vector search. Find your next ice cream to try today! See links ↓

He coded, he created, he conquered: Sumit Kumar's Smart Graahak agent won Best Lifestyle Bot in the Vertex AI Agent Hackathon. Discover how it helps consumers in India search for any product and learn about its benefits, brand, sustainability practices, and safety ↓

In less than five minutes, learn "how to use Langchain4J to create a straightforward sentiment analysis Spring Boot web service that can be added to an existing application or easily deployed as a standalone app on Google Cloud," via Aaron Wanjala↓ medium.com/@aaronmwanjala…

Don't just dream it, deploy it.

When you hear registration is open for our newest digital event, Gemini at Work! Sign up, here → goo.gle/47ened3