Bjoern Rost

loves data. Relational, Big, Fast, Streaming. Product manager at Google Cloud.
The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company.

[Bjoern Rost @brost]

@ChefsPlateCA Well you could have also picked up the phone when I called instead of pretending you don't hear me. Just acknowledge that you are not able to deliver, refund money (assuming you are still solvent) and I'll find a meal kit service that actually works

[Bjoern Rost @brost]

@ChefsPlateCA are you going out of business? We have not received our box and help desk was unable to take a phone call.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Entrepreneurs won BFCM, again.

→ Merchants’ sales globally were $14.6 billion, up 27% from last year
→ 81 million shoppers bought from Shopify-powered brands
→ 15,800+ entrepreneurs made their first sale
→ 136+ million packages tracked in the Shop App
→ 2.2 trillion edge requests
→ Processed and served 90 PB of data from our infrastructure
→ Handled 14.8 trillion database queries and 1.75 trillion database writes

[Bjoern Rost @brost]

@oraclebase I just bought a yacht - but don't call me rich

[Bjoern Rost @brost]

Secure your data in #AlloyDB with precision! My latest blog post dives into how to implement fine-grained IAM permissions for robust security. Check it out: https://t.co/4JTBlhEfX7 #GoogleCloud #IAM

[Tanel Poder 🇺🇦 @TanelPoder]

Google's latest version of AlloyDB Omni (Postgres 16.3 compatible) has a number of promising I/O performance features in preview:

Streaming multiblock reads, O_DIRECT, torn write protection & asynchronous I/O with either io_uring (default) or libaio.

https://t.co/wiUBDnPIa1

[Gleb Otochkin @sky_vst]

Have you heard that you can now create an #AlloyDB instance using the Google Axion CPU (C4A type) and with a minimal configuration of only 1 CPU and 8Gb memory. That's probably the ideal developments, demos and functional testing. Give it a try . @googledevs #Postgres

[Bjoern Rost @brost]

Big news for big data! 🚀 AlloyDB now integrates with BigLake tables for Apache Iceberg. This is a game-changer for your Google Data Cloud & Lakehouse architecture! Read more: https://t.co/z6YHwRfvF5 #AlloyDB #BigLake #ApacheIceberg #GCP #GoogleCloud

[Bjoern Rost @brost]

Watch our new video to see how a leading Google Cloud partner, Snowdrop, leverages AlloyDB and Gemini to process billions of transactions, enabling advanced AI-powered merchant matching (including vector search & translation!). https://t.co/mAojP6mt40

[Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK]

We look forward to welcoming @wiz_io to @GoogleCloud! Together, we believe we will make it easier and faster for all organizations to protect themselves against cybersecurity incidents across all major clouds and code environments.

[Gleb Otochkin @sky_vst]

I’m speaking at Google Cloud Next 25 about AlloyDB Omni on Kubernetes along with local AI models on Apr-11 at 11AM PDT . Join the discussion with @GoogleCloud → https://t.co/zqyynrB02F

[Gleb Otochkin @sky_vst]

Published a short video about RAG and interactive apps on Youtube. Have a look and let me know what you think. @googledevs @googleaidevs https://t.co/lIDppVwSaK

[Gene Kim @RealGeneKim]

The "generate git commit" feature in Google Gemini Code Assist plugin for IntelliJ is mind-blowing to me.

I'm utterly stunned to what extent it describes not just the changes, but also its uncanny ability to glean WHY the changes were made, is melting my head.

This description below is so freaking helpful — there are so many changes in the past I wish I could have documented this way! cc @rseroter @nathenharvey @DynamicWebPaige @matvelloso @Steve_Yegge

PS: I wish there was a "fast mode" for this feature — often I just want whatever it can generate in 5 seconds, because that's infinitely better than me typing "fixed". (Sometimes I don't want to wait the 15s for the incredible thorough version.)

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

We've got the most YouTube subscribers (1m+!) of any cloud provider, but @googlecloud videos don't go viral too often. That's expected.

But this one—"Translating baby sounds using Google AI"—is closing on 150k views in 4 days! Fun demo.

https://t.co/MQIAFGC09R

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

Hey look at that. @googlecloud Spanner Graph is now GA.

All the fun parts of a graph database, but with the unique power of Spanner.

The new open source graphing tool for @GoogleColab is kinda awesome. Lots of other GA features ...
https://t.co/lx9FUgf9po

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

wow, found a rare interview of a DeepSeek co-founder talking about his first AI startup exit a few years ago

[Surachart 🚶🏻‍♂️🍺 @surachart]

How to build interactive Gen AI applications with Vertex AI https://t.co/0QvlsvNAIw via @YouTube

[Gleb Otochkin @sky_vst]

What if your database workload has ups and downs with not entirely predictable cycles? I’ve published a blog on how to implement autoscale for AlloyDB using Cloud Monitoring, Pub/Sub and Cloud Run Functions. @googledevs @googlecloud #AlloyDB #Autoscaling
https://t.co/YrFuz2QTwz

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Can we now have this Canada back? https://t.co/g2iTk9NIc5

[Bruno Borges @brunoborges]

Folks who are developing apps with a local PostgreSQL, how do you manage the database? Running on a container? Persisting volume how?