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Fri, December 5, 2025
Back Market Migrates to Google Data Cloud, Cuts Costs
🔁 Back Market migrated its data and core tech stack from AWS-based Snowflake and Databricks to Google Cloud, consolidating all historical and operational data in BigQuery. The team executed a two-week proof of concept and a live double-run migration that kept production on Databricks while writing to cloned BigQuery tables until outputs matched. They replaced AWS DMS with Datastream, implemented hourly batching to control small-file costs, and completed critical switchover in six months. The move halved data processing times, cut CDC costs by 90%, reduced technical debt, and improved observability, governance, and developer productivity.
Tue, October 28, 2025
Integrating Oracle with Google Cloud for AI Automation
🔁 This Google Cloud post explains how enterprises can integrate Oracle Database with cloud-native analytics and AI by moving transactional data into BigQuery. It recommends ingestion patterns such as low-latency Change Data Capture via Datastream, batch staging to Cloud Storage, and notes ODBC/JDBC for interactive queries but not continuous replication. Once data resides in BigQuery, organizations can leverage Gemini-powered features, BigQuery ML, and AI agents (via the Agent Developer Kit) for natural-language exploration, assisted coding, multimodal analysis, and automated workflows across retail and education use cases.
Thu, August 28, 2025
What's New in Google Data Cloud: August Product Roundup
🔔 This Google Cloud roundup summarizes recent product milestones, GA launches, previews, and integrations across the data analytics, BI, and database portfolio. It highlights updates to BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and adjacent services aimed at easing ingestion, migration, and AI-driven operations. Notable items include MongoDB-compatible Firestore GA, PSC networking improvements for Database Migration Service, and a redesigned BigQuery data ingestion experience. The post also emphasizes resilience and DR enhancements such as immutable backups and Near Zero Downtime maintenance.