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GCP – How the CARTO platform enables the creation of advanced data visualizations with Google Maps Platform and deck.gl
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post is from Alberto Asuero, CTO of CARTO, the location intelligence platform. Today he shares more details about the source of the data for advanced data visualizations created with Google Maps Platform and deck.gl and how the CARTO platform enables this workflow. During Google Cloud Next in October, the Google team […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports rich formatting in chat messages
Amazon Connect Chat now allows your agents and customers to use rich text formatting when composing a message, enabling them to quickly add emphasis and structure to messages, improving comprehension. The available formatting options include bold, italics, hyperlinks, bulleted lists, and numbered lists. Read More for the details.
GCP – Celebrating Pi Day with Cloud Functions
March 14 is Pi Day, an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π. We’re doing a few experiments with the new Cloud Functions (2nd gen) this year to showcase the new serverless platform. Serverless π calculation Can we go serverless to calculate π? There is a relatively new algorithm called the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP formula) […]
GCP – Data Governance in the Cloud – part 2 – Tools
This is part 2 of the Data Governance blog series published in January. This blog focuses on technology to implement data governance in the cloud. Along with a corporate governance policy and a dedicated team of people, implementing a successful data governance program requires tooling. From securing data, retaining and reporting audits, enabling data discovery, […]
Azure – General availability: Support for Private Link in Azure Digital Twins
Support for Private Link is now generally available for Azure Digital Twins, a platform that enables you to create digital representation of real-world things, places, and business processes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Pin analytics tile to dashboards in Azure IoT Central
Quickly build new visuals by simply pinning an analytics tile from data explorer to the dashboard directly. Read More for the details.
GCP – Industry-leading reliability, global scale & open standards with Google Cloud Databases
In today’s digital landscape, consumers expect near-instant feats of speed and personalized service packaged up as easy-to-use apps. To them, the sky’s the limit when it comes to what’s possible from technology experiences. But meeting (and ideally, exceeding) their expectations is often a heavy lift for many companies—especially those running modern apps on legacy, on-premises […]
GCP – Unlock more choice with updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing
Over the past several years, Google Cloud has made significant investments in our infrastructure product portfolio. We launched new Tau T2D VMs, which deliver 42% better price-performance vs. other leading cloud providers. We upgraded Cloud Storage to offer more flexibility to support customers’ enterprise and analytics workloads, with dual-region buckets and upcoming Turbo Replication. And […]
GCP – Apollo Scales GraphQL Platform using GKE
Every business has tools they start with, tools they grow with or grow out of, and tools they adopt along the way. GraphQL is an open source query language that many companies are adopting to modernize the way they, or their users, query resources. In this video, Apollo tells the story of how they’re meeting […]
GCP – How Rhode Island created a virtual career center
2020 brought many challenges, especially as in-person operations were shut down, and many were left vulnerable to unemployment. The State of Rhode Island responded to these challenges, by modernizing their workforce development operations and moving completely to a custom online platform called the Virtual Career Center, also nicknamed “the VCC.” Snapshot of the Virtual Career […]