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GCP – How Mercado Libre Builds Upon a Continuous Intelligence Ecosystem with BigQuery and Looker
At Mercado Libre, we are obsessed with unlocking the power and potential of data. One of our key cultural principles is to have a Beta Mindset. This means that we operate in a “state of beta”, constantly asking new questions of our data, experimenting with technologies and iterating our business operations in service of creating […]
GCP – Over 700 tech companies power their applications using Google’s data cloud
Today, a typical enterprise uses over 100 SaaS applications while large organizations commonly use over 400 apps. These applications contain valuable data on customers, suppliers, employees, products and more, offering the potential for valuable insights and powerful workflows. However, in the past, this data has often remained siloed and underutilized, even within an application. Customer […]
GCP – Securely exchange data and analytics assets at scale with Analytics Hub, now available in Preview
Now more than ever, organizations rely on real-time and accurate data analytics solutions to drive innovation and achieve operational excellence. With the help of AI and machine learning, companies combine data from various sources to derive actionable insights, forecast outcomes and make more informed decisions. Many organizations are also looking for new ways to monetize […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge introduces Global endpoints for automatic failover and recovery
Amazon EventBridge now supports Global endpoints, a simpler and more reliable way for customers to improve the availability of their event-driven applications on AWS. Global endpoint is a new feature that makes it easier for customers to build robust and reliable applications by automatically failing over their event ingestion to a secondary region during service […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Performance Insights is now in preview
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amplify Geo Launches React Component for Maps, powered by Amazon Location Service
Today we are announcing the availability of Map and Location Search UI components for web apps built with React. Amplify Geo, launched last year, enables frontend developers to add location-aware features to their web applications using Amazon Location Service. Developers can now make use of a React component for adding modern mapping features to their […]
AWS – AWS announces integration between AWS AppConfig Feature Flags and Atlassian’s Jira Cloud
AWS is announcing an integration between AWS AppConfig and Jira in the Atlassian Marketplace. The integration allows feature flags from AWS AppConfig to be tracked in Atlassian’s Jira as individual issues, making it easier for teams to track the release of new capabilities of their software. AWS AppConfig is a feature of AWS Systems Manager. […]
AWS – Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes for Amazon MemoryDB Preview
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for Amazon MemoryDB enables you to define and use MemoryDB resources directly from your Kubernetes cluster. This lets you take advantage of MemoryDB to support your Kubernetes applications without needing to define MemoryDB resources outside of the cluster or run and manage in-memory database capabilities within the cluster. Read More […]
AWS – AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Puppet Enterprise
AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the current Puppet Enterprise LTS version 2019.8.10. Customers benefit from receiving the update automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS now allows you to run commands in a Windows container running on AWS Fargate
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Exec adds support for executing commands in a Windows container running on AWS Fargate. ECS Exec gives you interactive shell or single command access to a running container making it easier to debug issues, diagnose errors, collect one-off dumps and statistics, and interact with processes in the container. Read […]