Google today announced a major update to its Cloud SQL, which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google’s cloud. The highlights are this: 10 times more storage, faster reads, ...

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Let's break down performance metrics, cost considerations, and the ever-changing best practices of cloud storage and database solutions. I recently finished a project doing some evaluation of various ...