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TechCrunch+ roundup: Stealth recruiting, virtual sales kickoffs, Google Cloud’s Q4

TechCrunch

With a $22B run rate, does it matter if Google Cloud is still losing money? You’ve got to spend money to make money” is a cliché, but if you’re building a company that hopes to compete in the cloud, it’s a fact. This week, Google Cloud reported $5.5 This week, Google Cloud reported $5.5

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CloudBank’s Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

CEO of CloudBank, explaining the origins of the product’s name. The Genesis product wasn’t a hit at first, but it became popular after the explosion of FinTech in recent years. Core banking is where everything starts in the banking business. . The first release of Genesis was based on Apache Kafka 2.0

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