Amit Patel

Me: Product Mgr, Marketer, Strategist, Googler, Humanist | Interests: Cloud, Databases, Analytics, Data Warehousing, Travel, Photography | Views are mine only.

[Google Cloud Tech @GoogleCloudTech]

Welcome to the post-training era.

LLMs are democratizing access to #AI for app developers. Now, you don't need to know how to train #ML models—you need the tools to take advantage of LLMs.

Here's why databases with vector indexing support can help ↓

[Google Cloud Tech @GoogleCloudTech]

Picture this: A downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run on-premises, at the edge, across clouds, and on developer laptops—offering AlloyDB benefits like high performance & full Postgres compatibility at a fraction of the cost of legacy databases.

Picture AlloyDB Omni ↓

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

Research from @IDC reveals that organizations migrating their databases to Cloud SQL unlock significant efficiencies and cost reductions, including a three-year ROI of 246%.

Learn how Cloud SQL can take you higher → https://t.co/CMaf17GM6b

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

Google isn't a conventional company, so why should we have a conventional @googlecloud strategy?

AlloyDB is a premium PostgreSQL cloud service, and we just announced a preview of AlloyDB Omni, premium software you can run ANYWHERE, supported by us.

https://t.co/DSi8tVzH1L

[Amit Patel @amit505]

Had my first bad experience with @Airbnb. My host cancelled my reservation (made two months ago) the day before my arrival, and @AirbnbHelp failed to help. Took 4 hours to get customer service on phone, and ultimately I had to pay more to get comparable accommodation. #Airbnb

[Amit Patel @amit505]

Final result: 90 mins to get through security at @SeaTacAirport this morning. @TSA @TSA_Pekoske

[Amit Patel @amit505]

Horrendous security wait times @SeaTacAirport it seems much worse than the 75 mins they are communicating @TSA line started in parking area. Drive, don’t fly.

[Amit Patel @amit505]

We’ve waited 75 mins already and still not close to the ends of the line @tsa @AskTSA @TSA_Pekoske

[Google Cloud Tech @GoogleCloudTech]

The Spanner paper “Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database" received the 2022 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award 👏

Spanner has helped companies deliver transformative customer experiences with global scale, consistent transactions, & high availability → https://t.co/TCKUskmqks

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

▶️ Google Cloud Database Golden Demo

Learn how Cloud SQL’s observability and AlloyDB’s HTAP features help reduce risk and unlock innovation for modern applications ↓

[Andi Gutmans @andigutmans]

Today is Database Thursday! Announcing Datastream for BigQuery, Free 90-day Trial for Spanner -- the most scalable and available relational database, easy migrations to (and from) AlloyDB, ... Lots of fun for builders! https://t.co/Uj4Ht8wZgH #databases #googlecloud

[Amit Patel @amit505]

Try #GoogleSpanner at no cost for 90 days with new free trial instances.

Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database that offers near unlimited scale, strong consistency, and
99.999% availability. Explore Spanner with a free instance today ↓

https://t.co/pqNDYsfFNV"

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

The first cloud DB you chose might not be right fit anymore. That's ok.

Today, you can upgrade. Now, try out @googlecloud Spanner for 90 days AT NO COST.

https://t.co/mtlMFaGKaF

And, today you can use Datastream to do change data capture into BigQuery.

https://t.co/CsuC3nJMJV

[Ravi Murthy @rmurthy2020]

Super excited to share AlloyDB with the world today. It’s been fantastic working with an incredible team to build AlloyDB for PostgreSQL #GoogleIO2022 #googlealloydb

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

Introducing #GoogleAlloyDB — a new and powerful, fully-managed, relational database service that combines the best of @Google with #PostgreSQL. Get started today ↓
https://t.co/ZDgJ80XARH

[Andi Gutmans @andigutmans]

I’m excited to share that AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is here! AlloyDB delivers superior performance, availability, manageability and scale for your most demanding enterprise workloads. Really great modernization option for enterprise customers! https://t.co/Oydeqdyaor #GoogleIO2022

[Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK]

Today at #GoogleIO, we’re thrilled to announce AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. Based on our decades of experience designing and managing database systems, it provides superior performance and scale for the most demanding enterprise workloads. https://t.co/yVTkQPSY5b

[Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK]

Access to data has moved beyond the analyst and now impacts every employee, customer and partner. We unveiled new innovations today that enable our customers to use limitless amounts of data across all workloads and extend access to everyone. https://t.co/dQn69SB465

[Google Cloud Tech @GoogleCloudTech]

Cloud Memorystore for Redis can scale for large keyspace and high transaction use cases when used in conjunction with the Envoy proxy.

Take a look at our sample architecture ⬇️, then learn how to do this in a few minutes with this hands-on walkthrough ➡️ https://t.co/T35O8yUeUK

[Justin Makeig @featurebacklog]

Five years ago today Cloud Spanner launched in preview. No wonder my wife was asking if we’re doing anything special tonight.