Critical Breakthroughs and technical Challenges in Big Data Driven Innovation discusses 4 key breakthroughs in Google Cloud Platform's approach to big data:
1. Batch and streaming data processing can be combined using Cloud Dataflow.
2. Real-time data ingestion at massive scales is enabled through technologies like Cloud Bigtable which can process billions of events per hour.
3. Analytics can be done at the speed of thought through BigQuery which allows complex queries on petabytes of data to return results in seconds.
4. Machine learning is made available to everyone through services that offer pre-trained models via APIs and allow custom modeling using TensorFlow on Google Cloud.