Last year today: Top Google Cloud posts in 2019

As the end of this busy year approaches, we’re stopping to take a look back at this year in Google Cloud technology. From hybrid cloud and serverless development to databases and analytics, there were lots of new solutions to help move your business forward. Check out these most-read posts from 2019. 

Making cloud infrastructure and application decisions
The cloud architecture your business builds will be the one that works best for your internal teams and customers. This year, you had questions about your infrastructure modernization and development options, and we had answers, along with new tools so you create the cloud you want. Here were some of the popular infrastructure and application modernization posts in 2019.

• 5 principles for cloud-native architecture—what it is and how to master it

• Making hybrid and multi-cloud computing a reality

• Cloud Services Platform—bringing hybrid cloud to you

• Announcing Cloud Run, the newest member of our serverless compute stack

• API design: Why you should use links, not keys, to represent relationships in APIs

Taming your business’s data, and making it work for you
A successful cloud infrastructure needs good data coming in, and lots of easy ways to manage, use, and share it. Here were this year’s most popular posts around data management and analytics.

• Bringing the best of open source to Google Cloud customers

• From data ingestion to insight prediction: Google Cloud smart analytics accelerates your business transformation

• Google to Acquire Looker

• Query without a credit card: introducing BigQuery sandbox

• Connecting BigQuery and Google Sheets to help with hefty data analysis

Cloud inspiration is all around
Lots of the highlights of 2019 were stories from customers about how they’re using Google Cloud to power their great work—plus one from a Googler.

• Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes' constant on Google Cloud

• How Google and Mayo Clinic will transform the future of healthcare

• UPS uses Google Cloud to build the global smart logistics network of the future

• How 20th Century Fox uses ML to predict a movie audience

• Turning data into NCAA March Madness insights

Finally, get inspired—and start thinking about your New Year’s resolutions—with details on earning Google Cloud certifications to advance your career and add expertise to your team at work. 

What were the tech highlights for you this year? Let us know on Twitter.