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Query without a credit card: introducing BigQuery sandbox

Today we are announcing the BigQuery sandbox, a credit-card free path to enable new users and students to experiment with BigQuery at no cost—without having to enter credit card information. As organizations begin to collect more and more data, many find that a serverless data warehouse like BigQuery is the only platform that can scale to meet their needs.

Spinning up Cloud-scale Analytics is now Even More Compelling with Talend and Microsoft

Today, we're excited to share two announcements that make adopting Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse (ADW) a no-brainer. First, ADW significantly increased the lead over the competition with the new price-performance benchmarks published by GigaOm, showing exponential price-performance improvements over similar solutions.

What is First Meaningful Paint (FMP)?

Time to First Meaningful Paint (TTFMT) is a modern performance metric introduced by few engineers from Google, and is the time to paint the main content that users are interested in, so the thing the users came here for. Rendering some background color can be much easier and faster, but that’s definitely not what the users was looking for when they entered your website.

How The Telegraph is using APIs to personalize its news feeds

The news business has undergone a profound transformation since the advent of the internet. In just a few years, readers have gone from consuming news primarily in printed form to overwhelmingly favoring digital channels for real-time news delivery. To keep pace with reader demand, we need to continually innovate to ensure that The Telegraph provides the online and mobile news channels that keep our readers returning again and again.

Apigee Edge for Private Cloud 4.19.01 Is Here!

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Apigee Edge for Private Cloud 4.19.01. This release gives our customers even more flexibility to manage their APIs with features like Open API 3.0 support (OAS 3.0), self-healing with apigee-monit, TLS security, virtual host management improvements, and additional software support. Most notably, we are making the New Edge experience generally available to all customers.

TCP stream support in Kong

With Kong 1.0 users are now able to control TCP (Transport Control Protocol) traffic. Learn about how we added TCP support, and how you can try it out. TCP traffic powers email, file transfer, ssh, and many other common types of traffic that can’t be handled by a layer 7 proxy. Our expansion to layer 4 will enable you to connect even more of your services using Kong.

Introducing six new cryptocurrencies in BigQuery Public Datasets-and how to analyze them

Since they emerged in 2009, cryptocurrencies have experienced their share of volatility—and are a continual source of fascination. In the past year, as part of the BigQuery Public Datasets program, Google Cloud released datasets consisting of the blockchain transaction history for Bitcoin and Ethereum, to help you better understand cryptocurrency. Today, we're releasing an additional six cryptocurrency blockchains.