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GCP – Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing toil
Almost two decades of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has proved the value of incorporating software engineering practices into traditional infrastructure and operations management. In a parallel world, we’re finding that similar principles can radically improve outcomes for the Security Operations Center (SOC), a domain plagued with infrastructure and operational challenges. As more organizations go through […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: November 2021
We’re coming up on the end of the year, yet many of the most pressing security themes from 2021 remain the same, from securing open source software, to enabling zero trust architectures and more. I’ll recap the latest updates from the Google Cybersecurity Action Team and industry progress on important security efforts in this month’s […]
GCP – Learn Beam patterns with Clickstream processing of Google Tag Manager data
Building your first pipeline can be a daunting task for a developer. When there are so many tools that can get the job done, how should you go about getting started? For power, flexibility, and ease of use, we find that the combination of Apache Beam and Dataflow offers developers a variety of ways to […]
AWS – Introducing intelligent user segmentation in Amazon Personalize, helping you to run more effective marketing campaigns
Amazon Personalize now offers intelligent user segmentation which allows you to run more effective prospecting campaigns through your marketing channels. Traditionally, user segmentation has relied on demographic information and manually curated business rules to make assumptions about users’ intentions and assign them to pre-defined audience segments. Amazon Personalize uses machine learning techniques to learn about your items, […]
AWS – Amazon BugBust announces the First Annual AWS BugBust re:Invent challenge
Today, we are excited to announce the First Annual AWS BugBust re:Invent challenge. Java and Python developers of all skill levels, can compete to fix as many software bugs as possible to earn points and climb the global leaderboard. There will be an array of prizes, from hoodies and fly swatters to Amazon Echo Dots, […]
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now detects hardcoded secrets in Java and Python repositories
Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations to detect security vulnerabilities, improve code quality and identify an application’s most expensive lines of code. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing recommenders optimized to deliver personalized experiences for Media & Entertainment and Retail with Amazon Personalize
Today, Amazon Personalize is excited to announce recommenders which are optimized to deliver personalized experiences for common use cases in Media & Entertainment and Retail. It is now faster and easier to deliver high performing personalized user experiences in your applications without any ML expertise required. Recommenders reduce the time needed to build and deliver […]
AWS – AWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview)
Today, we are announcing the public preview of a new feature that allows you to use AWS Chatbot to manage AWS resources and remediate issues in AWS workloads by running AWS CLI commands from Slack channels. Previously, you could only monitor AWS resources and retrieve diagnostic information using AWS Chatbot. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS IoT RoboRunner, Now Available in Preview
AWS IoT RoboRunner is a new robotics service that makes it easier for enterprises to build and deploy applications that help fleets of robots work together seamlessly. With AWS IoT RoboRunner, it is easier to build applications that make it possible to interoperate and orchestrate robots from a single view by reducing the complex development […]
AWS – AWS App2Container now supports Jenkins for setting up a CI/CD pipeline
AWS App2Container(A2C) now supports Jenkins for setting up a CI/CD pipeline to automate building and deploying application in containers on AWS. With this new integration, customers can configure their existing Jenkins pipeline in the current Jenkins environment for managing automated build and deployment of containerized applications. Read More for the details.