Google Announces Dev Service For This Altcoin: Company’s Web3 Representative Makes a Statement!

Google, Ethereum (ETH) altcoin announced the launch of a cloud-based node engine service for developers and projects.

Google Launches Cloud-Based Node Service for Ethereum Altcoin Developers

Officially called the Blockchain Node Engine, Google’s service is a “fully managed service,” meaning customers won’t need to hire their own teams to maintain or monitor their nodes. Instead, Google says it “actively monitors nodes and restarts them if anything goes wrong.”

The Blockchain Node Engine also includes several security features, such as Google’s Cloud Armor, designed to prevent denial of service (DDos) attacks that spam and slow networks.

Google says its nodes will also reside behind a VPC firewall, allowing users to customize the types of permissions they want. Customers can also choose where to deploy their nodes geographically.

Nodes, which are containers for executing code for cryptocurrency networks, are an essential Web3 building block and necessary for networks like Ethereum to function properly. The more nodes a network has, the more decentralized, scalable and secure it can become.

Currently operating on a global scale, Google is clearly aware of this fact and wants to be a major actor in the Web3 infrastructure space.

James Tromans, Google’s Director of Cloud Web3 Makes a Statement on the Subject

Richard Widmann, Google’s Head of Web3 Strategy, said earlier at the Mainnet conference that it is trying to “build a giant bridge” between the traditional tech industry and Web3 by offering such cloud-based services.

When asked if Node Engine could help prevent network outages, James Tromans, Google’s Director of Cloud Web3, said via email that outages occur for “a number of different reasons.”

“In cases where the underlying infrastructure is faulty, the more providers offering high-quality node infrastructure like that of Google Cloud, the more redundancy we will have and the less likely end users will experience downtime,” Tromans said.

Increasing the number of nodes in a network can also improve the overall security of the network. Thousands of nodes around the world can act as backups in case any node encounters technical problems or is otherwise shut down.

*Not investment advice.