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Gleb Otochkin

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Cloud Advocate at Google working with data and AI

Ottawa, Ontario

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May 21

Talk to Your Data: Analyze Data in AlloyDB Using Natural Language

SQL is language for your data If you are working with databases as an analyst or...

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Nov 25 '25

AlloyDB Agentic RAG Application with MCP Toolbox [Part 2]

This is Part 2 of the AlloyDB Agentic RAG application codelab, please start with Part 1. 7....

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Nov 25 '25

AlloyDB Agentic RAG Application with MCP Toolbox [Part 1]

1. Introduction In this codelab, you will learn how to create an AlloyDB cluster, deploy...

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Dec 15 '25

Cloud SQL vs. Specialized Databases: Choosing Your Vector Search Solution

Introduction The popularity of vector search has exploded with the introduction of...

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Dec 15 '25

Automating AlloyDB Operations

Introduction One of the best features of cloud services is the management API. Let’s...

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Dec 15 '25

B-tree indexes for JSON in PostgreSQL

Introduction PostgreSQL is a swiss knife of databases — it supports all kinds of data....

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Dec 15 '25

Automating AlloyDB starts and stops

Introduction Development and production environments have different requirements and...

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Dec 15 '25

State-of-the-art text embedding in AlloyDB with the latest Gemini model

I think most of the readers are aware about large language models (LLM) and their ability to use...

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Dec 15 '25

AlloyDB Omni on Mac with Podman

Do you like to sink deep in an armchair with a laptop on your lap and do some development or run...

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Dec 15 '25

AlloyDB Autoscaling is Easy

Can you imagine yourself buying something during a major sale in a store and not able to complete the...

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Dec 15 '25

AlloyDB Omni and local models on GKE

AlloyDB and Vertex AI are great cloud services providing tons of capabilities and options to serve...

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Dec 15 '25

Hugging face and Open AI Models in AlloyDB Omni

In my previous post I showed how to register some Vertex AI models in the AlloyDB Omni database and...

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