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Cloud Blog: Colossus: the secret ingredient in Rapid Storage’s high performance

Apr 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-the-colossus-stateful-protocol-benefits-rapid-storage/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus: the secret ingredient in Rapid Storage’s high performance Feedly Summary: As an object storage service, Google Cloud Storage is popular for its simplicity and scale, a big part of which is due to the stateless REST protocols that you can use to read and write data. But…

The Register: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks

Mar 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/google_l4_storage_performance_improvements/ Source: The Register Title: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Feedly Summary: Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew ‘L4’ automation and cache Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but…

Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

Mar 26, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…

Cloud Blog: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Two years of innovation and industry leadership

Mar 19, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/reflecting-on-two-years-of-alloydb/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Two years of innovation and industry leadership Feedly Summary: Two years ago, on a mission to redefine enterprise-grade databases we released AlloyDB for PostgreSQL in production. We saw the immense popularity and flexibility of PostgreSQL — a database developers love for being open-source — and…

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Cloud Blog: Colossus: the secret ingredient in Rapid Storage’s high performance

The Register: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks

Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

Cloud Blog: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Two years of innovation and industry leadership