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GCP – How can demand forecasting approach real time responsiveness? Vertex AI makes it possible
Everyone wishes they had a crystal ball—especially retailers and consumer goods companies looking for the next big trend, or logistics companies worried about the next big storm. With a veritable universe of data now at their fingertips (or at least at their keyboards), these companies can now get closer to real-time forecasting across a range […]

GCP – DevOps for tech companies and startups: Learn from over 32,000 professionals on how to drive success with Google Cloud’s DORA research
Many technology-driven organizations and startups use DevOps as a business enabler, allowing them to bring ideas to market quickly, increase developer productivity, and increase their customer base. Adopting DevOps workflows can drive success but many companies continue to struggle with how to get started or optimize the DevOps tools they currently have incorporated. Google Cloud’s […]

GCP – How Wayfair is modernizing, one database at a time
Editor’s note: With 18 fulfillment centers, 38 delivery centers, and a catalog of more than 22 million items, online retailer Wayfair needed a way to quickly move from their on-premises data centers running SQLServer to Google Cloud—without derailing their team of over 3,000 engineers, their tens of millions of customers, or their 16,000 supplier partners.This […]

GCP – Understanding Firestore performance with Key Visualizer
Firestore is a serverless, scalable, NoSQL document database. It is ideal for rapid and flexible web and mobile application development, and uniquely supports real-time client device syncing to the database. To get the best performance out of Firestore, while also making the most out of Firestore’s automatic scaling and load balancing features, you need to […]

GCP – Patterns for better insights and troubleshooting with hybrid cloud logs
Hybrid and multi-cloud environments produce a boundless array of logs including application and server logs, logs related to cloud services, APIs, orchestrators, gateways and just about anything else running in the environment. Due to this high volume, logging systems may become slow and unmanageable when you urgently need them to troubleshoot an issue, and even […]

GCP – The future of work requires a more human approach to security
Most businesses that have adopted off-site or hybrid working models over the last two years made the change under immense pressure. The need was incredibly urgent and timing was a major factor. Now that they’ve had a chance to adapt and settle in, leaders are revisiting how their teams work in a more proactive way. […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports new minor versions for SQL Server 2019 and 2017
New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and 2017 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation for managing dataset and dataset group resources
Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to utilize CloudFormation templates to provision and manage your dataset and dataset group resources. You can also easily launch and configure dataset and dataset group resources together as a stack, and use a template to create, update, and delete an entire stack as a single unit, as […]

GCP – Introducing the new Eventarc UI, Cloud Run for Anthos destinations
December was a busy month for the Eventarc team, who landed a number of features at the end of the year. Let’s take a closer look at some of these new capabilities. Cloud Storage trigger is GA Back in September, we announced the public preview of Cloud Storage triggers as the preferred way of routing […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R5 instance types in new region
On June 2021, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle has launched the additional configurations of the R5 instance in various regions. Read More for the details.