Google Cloud announced on October 2, 2026 that Spanner queues are generally available, adding native transactional messaging to its distributed database so developers can update data and enqueue tasks…
Google announced the general availability of Spanner queues, a native transactional messaging feature embedded directly within Spanner that lets AI agents commit state changes and enqueue downstream t…
A developer building an AI agent that generates and executes SQL found the agent returned a valid query with a wrong answer to a monthly recurring revenue question because a database schema alone cann…
Google Cloud announced that Spanner, its operational database, now removes cumulative mutation limits for DML transactions, allowing a single transaction to contain any number of DML statements as lon…
Maneshwar, the developer behind LiveReview, an AI code review tool, outlines seven key principles for building reliable distributed systems, drawing on examples from Amazon and Google. The article exp…
Google Cloud has launched AI-powered Database Operations Agents, including an Onboarding Agent and an Observability Agent, to simplify database lifecycle management. Integrated with Gemini Cloud Assis…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of BigQuery Conversational Analytics and the Conversational Analytics API, adding to the existing GA of Conversational Analytics in Looker, with Convers…
Google Cloud introduced the Agentic Data Cloud at Google Cloud Next 2026, unifying data, AI models, and operational databases into a single System of Action to address infrastructure bottlenecks for a…
Google has updated its Spanner distributed database to support global-scale agentic AI workloads, enabling unified multi-modal data handling with strict consistency. The move positions Spanner as a fo…
Google Cloud's Spanner database has been recognized as the top operational cloud DBMS for lightweight transactions by Gartner, achieving a 4.9/5.0 score for transactional consistency and 4.6/5.0 for A…
Modal introduced Servers, a new ultra-low-latency HTTP serving solution for serverless applications, built on Pingora, Envoy, and Spanner. The system minimizes overhead by avoiding control-plane looku…
Google Cloud Next 2026 shifted focus from model size to agentic control planes, with Google repositioning Gemini as a connective layer and launching the Agentic Data Cloud. Gartner predicts 40% of ent…
Google announced new data agents and tools for its Agentic Data Cloud, including Conversational Analytics across BigQuery, Lakehouse, AlloyDB, Spanner, and Cloud SQL, as well as Data Engineering, Data…
Google Cloud Spanner now supports multiple data models—relational, vector, graph, and analytic—within a single globally distributed instance, eliminating the need for separate databases for AI workloa…
Google announced managed and remote MCP support for its Cloud databases (AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore) to enable AI agents to interact with customer databases. The company also…
Updates to Google Cloud's Database Center, a unified management tool for its database fleet, now enhanced with Gemini-powered AI for observability and optimization. Key features include AI-driven reco…