Databases and Big Wins
This regional team is currently leading the pack with a 102% attainment in Database Revenue Retention (DRR).
Who is the South Team?
This 2025 enhancement allows for a "push-button" upgrade from older versions of PostgreSQL or MySQL to the latest, reducing downtime from hours to minutes.
What is In-place Major Version Upgrade?
Before joining Google, this Noogler spent years in the Navy, which explains their impeccable discipline during team syncs.
Who is Jonathan Owen?
This team member is the "legend" often thanked for bringing high-quality Korean and Japanese food to gatherings.
Who is Chris Mague?
They co-designed this globally distributed database that uses Paxos and atomic clocks to provide strong consistency across the entire planet.
Who is Jeff Dean and Spanner?
This $60M strategic win involved migrating a massive feature store from RocksDB to Bigtable and Memorystore.
Who is Snap Inc.?
Database Migration Service recently added support for "Continuous Data Replication" for this specific source-to-target path, ideal for migrating legacy Oracle workloads to AlloyDB.
What is Oracle to AlloyDB?
This Noogler, now owning the Semiconductor vertical, loves to bake and once shared that their favorite "stress-buster" is making elaborate cakes.
Who is Prajakta Shende?
During a team mixer, the group was famously split down the middle on this caffeinated debate.
What is Coffee vs. Tea?
They co-authored the 2004 paper on this programming model, which inspired Apache Hadoop and revolutionized how Google processed its massive web index.
Who is Jeff Dean and MapReduce
This healthcare company’s 5-year, $28M commitment was anchored by a major migration to Cloud SQL.
Who is Radnet?
This year, Firestore introduced a new indexing capability that allows for "k-nearest neighbor" searches, making it a viable choice for mobile-first AI apps.
What is Vector Search (or Vector Embeddings)?
A recent addition to the South team, this Noogler is a classical dancer (Bharatnatyam) and once performed for an audience of over 1,000 people.
Who is Shubha Hiremath?
George shared a "Midsummer" story about eating local delicacies in this European country.
What is Sweden?
They led the design of this distributed NoSQL storage system to handle petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.
Who is Jeff Dean and Bigtable?
This high-profile South region customer worked with the team on an enterprise-scale knowledge graph POC using this specific 2025 feature
Who is WellSky (using Spanner Graph)?
This specific feature, powered by the "AlloyDB AI" suite, allows the database to automatically convert relational data into vector embeddings without exporting it to an external model.
What is Model Endpoint Management (or the google_ml_integration extension)?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Both answers must be asked correctly:
One of these Nooglers revealed in their intro that they are a die-hard fan of the Golden State Warriors and haven't missed a home opener in three year, the other is the newest addition to the South/West team.
Who are Rahul Batta and Monty Chavez?
This specific dish is the unofficial "official" lunch for the South team when meeting in Atlanta.
What is BBQ?
In 2013, they helped bootstrap the program to build this custom AI accelerator chip, now in its v5 and v6 generations, to make neural network inference economically viable.
Who is Jeff Dean and the TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)?
To unblock a major Canadian customer, this "resident expert" collaborated with product teams to troubleshoot a critical issue with Memorystore for Memcached.
Who is Chris Mague?
In a massive 2025 shift toward "unified semantics," Spanner released this feature to allow users to perform graph traversals (nodes/edges) using a sub-language within standard SQL.
What is Spanner Graph?
In a "Chat" debate about the best regional snacks, this Noogler defended their love for authentic Middle Eastern Kunafa over standard holiday cookies.
Who is Nisa Meshal?
This household item was used to represent a "CloudStream Hydrator" during an offsite pitch challenge.
What is a Water Bottle?
They were instrumental in the creation of this open-source machine learning library, whose name refers to the multidimensional data arrays it processes.
Who is Jeff Dean and TensorFlow