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AI and ML

What is machine learning?

Learn about machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence that enables a system to autonomously learn and improve using neural networks and deep learning.

What is natural language processing?

Learn how natural language processing (NLP), powered by Google machine learning, provides insights into the structure and meaning of text.

App modernization

What are containers?

Learn about containers—lightweight packages of software that contain all of the necessary elements to run in any environment.

What is hybrid cloud?

Learn about a hybrid cloud approach where applications or their components run in a combination of on-premises and public cloud infrastructure.

What is Istio?

Learn about Istio and how it helps organizations run distributed, microservices-based apps anywhere.

What is Kubernetes?

Learn about Kubernetes (K8s), an open source system to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications anywhere.

What is OpenTelemetry?

Learn about OpenTelemetry, software and tools for capturing and exporting telemetry data from your cloud-native software and infrastructure.

Cloud basics

What is cloud computing?

Learn how cloud computing solves issues by offering scalable and on-demand services. Learn about the types and benefits of cloud computing.

What is digital transformation?

Learn about business digital transformation for business processes, culture, and customer experience.

What is IaaS?

Learn about Iaas (infrastructure as a service), a computing model that offers resources on demand to businesses and individuals via the cloud.

What is microservices architecture?

Learn how microservices architecture allows large applications to be separated into single services that are developed, deployed, and maintained independently.

What is a virtual server?

Learn about virtual servers, how they re-create the functionality of a physical server, and how they are configured so that multiple users can share their processing power.

Data analytics

What is Apache Hadoop?

Learn the basics of Apache Hadoop, including what it is, how it’s used, and what advantages it brings to big data environments.

What is Apache Kafka?

Learn about Apache Kafka, a platform for collecting, processing, and storing streaming data.

What is Apache Spark?

Learn about Apache Spark, an analytics engine for large-scale data processing.

What is business intelligence?

Learn about Business intelligence (BI), the process of analyzing company data to improve operations.

What is data governance?

Learn about data governance—the practice of making data secure, accurate, and available.

What is data integration?

Learn about data integration—the process of unifying data from different sources into a more useful view.

What is a data lake?

Learn how data lakes store, process, and secure large amounts of data.

What is a data warehouse?

Learn about data warehouses (DW), which are systems for data analysis and reporting.

What is ETL?

Learn how ETL lets companies convert structured and unstructured data to drive business decisions.

What is predictive analytics?

Learn how predictive analytics uses data, statistics, modeling, and machine learning to help predict and plan for future events, or find opportunities.

What is Presto?

Learn how Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine created by Facebook developers, runs interactive analytics against large volumes of data.

What is streaming analytics?

Learn about streaming analytics, which processes and analyzes data from sources that continuously send data.

Infrastructure

What are virtual machines?

Learn how virtual machines (VM) run programs and operating systems, store data, connect to networks, and more.

Security

What is disaster recovery?

Learn about disaster recovery and how Google Cloud covers cost, recovery, and scale, with disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS).

Storage

What is object storage?

Learn about object storage and its most common use cases.

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