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Cloud Talk
A collection of articles, podcasts and blogs on all things cloud, data and digital - from our consultants, industry veterans and experts around the world.


Why Smart Businesses Choose Elasticsearch: Real Use Cases & Benefits
Elasticsearch powers search, real-time analytics, and scalability for leading companies like Netflix, Uber, and GitHub. This guide explores its key features, real-world use cases, and business benefits that make it a strategic asset for modern enterprises.

SquareShift Content Team
Aug 227 min read


How to Delete Index in Elasticsearch: A Beginner's Guide
Learn how to delete index in Elasticsearch using REST API, Kibana, scripts, and ILM. Discover best practices to avoid downtime and data loss.

SquareShift Content Team
Aug 214 min read


How Managed Elasticsearch Helped a SaaS Company Scale Search Operations
As our SaaS platform rapidly expanded, maintaining a scalable and reliable search infrastructure became a major challenge. We were spending more than 40% of our engineering bandwidth resolving performance issues and fine-tuning clusters — leaving little time to build features users actually wanted. Adopting Managed Elasticsearch allowed us to streamline search operations, automate scaling, and focus on enhancing search relevance and user experience.

SquareShift Content Team
Aug 204 min read


Trustworthy AI: The Data-Governance Playbook That Keeps Regulators (and Boards) Happy
As organizations migrate to Google Cloud, strong data governance is critical for building trustworthy AI. Regulators and boards expect transparency and compliance, making responsible data handling a priority. By treating data as a regulated asset and leveraging tools like Google Dataplex and Vertex AI, companies can ensure secure, unbiased AI systems. Trustworthy AI during GCP migration isn’t optional, it’s a long-term advantage.

SquareShift Content Team
Aug 194 min read


E-commerce Internal Search Optimization: Turning Queries into Conversions
Your website's search bar is more than just a navigation tool; it's your most valuable sales instrument. Discover how an intelligent, well-optimized e-commerce search engine can turn frustrated shoppers into loyal customers and unlock your online store's full potential.

SquareShift Content Team
Aug 117 min read


Langfuse Self Hosting: A Complete Guide to Docker Compose Deployment, Setup, and Observability
Discover how to deploy Langfuse locally or on a virtual machine with Docker Compose. This step-by-step guide explores core Langfuse features, prompt management tools, self-hosting benefits, and advanced observability techniques for LLM-powered applications.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 284 min read


Building Production-Ready LLM Apps with Langfuse: Your Ultimate Guide
Tired of treating your LLM app like a black box? Langfuse gives AI engineers the visibility and control they need to debug hallucinations, manage prompts with precision, and evaluate LLM performance in real-time. This guide explores how Langfuse brings observability, DevOps readiness, and cost-efficiency to your AI workflows so you can confidently ship and scale production-ready LLM apps.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 254 min read


Understanding Cloud FinOps Part - 1: Building Financial Discipline in the Cloud Era
Cloud FinOps is more than a cost-cutting tool; it’s a cultural and operational shift that enables organizations to bring accountability, visibility, and continuous optimization to cloud spending. In this first part of our five-part series, we break down the foundations of Cloud FinOps and share actionable steps to help your teams take charge of cloud financial management.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 173 min read


Simplifying ML Pipelines with BigQuery ML and MLflow: A Developer-Friendly Guide
Discover how integrating BigQuery ML with MLflow revolutionizes machine learning workflows. Eliminate data exports, leverage serverless scalability, and achieve unparalleled MLflow model tracking for reproducible and auditable BigQuery ML pipelines especially powerful for GA4 machine learning data.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 104 min read


Unlocking Intelligent Conversations: Building a Slack Bot for Google AgentSpace
Discover how to create a powerful Slack bot for Google AgentSpace that transforms how teams interact with data. This hands-on guide walks you through secure setup, conversational triggers, and cross-functional automation, perfect for developers and productivity leaders looking to boost workplace efficiency.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 1010 min read


Revolutionizing Enterprise Productivity with Google Agentspace
In today’s AI-first enterprise landscape, businesses are sitting on mountains of valuable data scattered across documents, emails, databases, calendars, and collaboration tools like Google Workspace. Yet, the true challenge isn't storing all this information it’s finding it, understanding it, and acting on it quickly. That’s where Google AgentSpace steps in as a transformative solution.

SquareShift Content Team
Jun 275 min read


Reflection Agent: Writing the Ideal Tweet with Self-Adjusting AI
In the fast-evolving world of generative AI, it's no longer enough for an AI to just create content it must also be able to critique, learn, and improve. This blog explores the concept of a "Reflection Agent", a powerful construct that enables AI to refine its own outputs through feedback loops. Specifically, it focuses on building a self-correcting AI Tweet Generator using LangChain and LangGraph, with Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash as the underlying large language model.

SquareShift Content Team
Jun 277 min read


Unleash the Power of Multimodal AI: Build with Gemini 2.0 Flash in Google AI Studio
Unleash the Power of Multimodal AI: Build with Gemini 2.0 Flash in Google AI Studio

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 18, 20245 min read


Mastering the Top JavaScript Visualization Libraries : ThreeJS, ECharts
Mastering the Top JavaScript Visualization Libraries : ThreeJS, ECharts

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 13, 20243 min read


Mastering the Top JavaScript Visualization Libraries : D3JS, ChartJS, PlotyJS
Mastering the Top JavaScript Visualization Libraries : D3JS, ChartJS, PlotyJS

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 13, 20242 min read


Modern JavaScript Compilers: SWC and Traceur
Modern JavaScript Compilers: Webpack and Traceur

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 13, 20243 min read


Modern JavaScript Compilers: Flow and PureScript
Modern JavaScript Compilers: Flow and PureScript

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 13, 20244 min read


Modern JavaScript Compilers: TypeScript and Babel
Modern JavaScript Compilers: TypeScript and Babel

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 13, 20243 min read


Speed and Simplicity: A Look at Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG)
Speed and Simplicity: A Look at Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG)

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 9, 20244 min read


Understanding Flux and Redux: The Power of Unidirectional Data Flow
Understanding Flux and Redux: The Power of Unidirectional Data Flow

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 9, 20245 min read
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