DevOps & SRE

News, updates, and best practices for Cloud Operations, DevOps and SRE at Google

News in short

A quick take on updates, announcements, resources, events, and learning opportunities from Google Cloud in one handy location. Updated weekly.

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Application Development

Gemini Cloud Assist: Proactive cloud operations that work for you, even before you ask

By Michael Bachman • 5-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/gemini-cloud-assist-at-next26)

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Management Tools

Unified Maintenance: A new, unified way to manage maintenance across Google Cloud

By Erol-Valeriu Chioasca • 2-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/unified-maintenance-centralizes-planned-maintenance)

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Application Development

The platform usage trap part 1: Why high activity doesn’t necessarily mean high value

By Darren Evans • 9-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/at-john-lewis-partnership-measuring-developer-platform-value)

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Application Development

The platform usage trap part 2: Choosing meaningful monitoring metrics

By Darren Evans • 9-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/how-john-lewis-partnership-chose-its-monitoring-metrics)

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Financial Services

A smart investment: FINRA builds a culture of improvement with DORA

By Eric Maxwell • 2-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/finra-builds-a-culture-of-improvement-with-dora-and-devops)

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AI & Machine Learning

From adoption to impact: Putting the DORA AI Capabilities Model to work

By Nathen Harvey • 3-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/from-adoption-to-impact-putting-the-dora-ai-capabilities-model-to-work)

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DevOps & SRE

Is your DR plan just wishful thinking? Prove your resilience with chaos engineering

By Deepanshu Kalra • 6-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-chaos-engineering-to-test-dr-plans)

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Application Development

Streamline the design and deployment of application infrastructure with Application Design Center, now GA

By Vijay Potharla • 6-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/application-design-center-now-ga)

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Security & Identity

Responding to CVE-2025-55182: Secure your React and Next.js workloads

By Tim April • 9-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/responding-to-cve-2025-55182)

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DevOps & SRE

Chaos engineering on Google Cloud: Principles, practices, and getting started

By Parag Doshi • 6-minute read

](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/getting-started-with-chaos-engineering)