by Angela Guess
Rachel King reports for ZDnet, “Google Cloud Platform is upgrading two more of its data analysis products to general availability for the masses: Dataflow and Pub/Sub. The Google Cloud team highlighted this marks the graduation of the cloud provider’s entire suite of big data tools into general availability. The Internet giant first unveiled Dataflow just over a year ago at the annual Google I/O developer summit in San Francisco. Serving as a replacement for MapReduce, Dataflow was designed to analyze pipelines with arbitrarily large datasets, crunching information in either streaming or batch mode.”
King goes on, “After being pushed out as an alpha release, Google later tacked on an open sourced SDK for Java to make it easier for developers to integrate with Google’s managed service in order to port Dataflow to other development languages and environments. Dataflow finally made its way into beta by this April as the Android maker also unveiled new features for the Google BigQuery cloud analytics product. As for Cloud Pub/Sub, designed for integrating apps and services to then analyze their data streams in real-time, Google Cloud product managers touted in a blog post on Wednesday this release follows a ‘decade of internal innovation’.”
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