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GCP – Tokopedia’s journey to creating a Customer Data Platform (CDP) on Google Cloud Platform
Founded in 2009, Tokopedia is an ecommerce platform that enables millions of Indonesian to transact online. As the company grows, there is an urgent need to better understand customer’s behavior in order to improve the customer’s experience across the platform. Now, Tokopedia has more than 100 million Monthly Active Users and the demography and preferences […]

GCP – DevOps and CI/CD on Google Cloud explained
What is CI/CD? Continuous Integration (CI), at its core, is about getting feedback early and often, which makes it possible to identify and correct problems early in the development process. With CI, you integrate your work frequently, often multiple times a day, instead of waiting for one large integration later on. Each integration is verified […]

GCP – Postmortems at Loon: a guiding force for rapid development
Founded by Google SRE alumni, it is no surprise that Loon’s Production Engineering/SRE team instituted a culture of blameless postmortems that became a key feature of Loon’s approach to incident response. Blameless postmortems originated as an aerospace practice in the mid-20th century, so it was particularly fitting that they came full circle to be used […]

GCP – How Vuclip safeguards its cloud environment across 100+ projects with Security Command Center
Entertainment has never been more accessible. As our phones are now an inextricable part of our lives, there’s an increasing appetite for mobile video content, and that is what Vuclip delivers. Vuclip is a leading video-on-demand service for mobile devices with more than 41 million monthly active users across more than 22 countries. Speed is […]

GCP – The past, present, and future of Kubernetes with Eric Brewer
In 2014, the first echos of the word Kubernetes in tech were heard throughout the industry. Back then, the first thing that usually came to mind was “How do you even pronounce it?” Fast forward seven years and it’s become one of the largest open source projects in the world. One of the early stewards […]

GCP – Cloud Security podcast by Google turns 46 – Reflections and lessons!
Time flies when you’re having fun! We’ve produced 46 episodes of the Cloud Security Podcast by Google since our launch in February 2021. Looking back, we’d like to share some cloud security lessons and insights we picked up along the way. Over the course of 2021, the following themes emerged as the most popular with […]

GCP – Sustainability starts locally in Kingston and Sutton with Chrome OS, Acer, Px3, and Citrix
Editor’s note:Today’s post is by David Grasty, the Corporate Head of Digital Transformation at Kingston council in Southwest London. The council chose Chrome OS and Acer Chromebooks to accelerate progress on local sustainability goals. To fight climate change on a global level, we have to start in our home boroughs. Both the Royal Borough of […]

AWS – Amazon S3 File Gateway now supports NFS file share auditing
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AWS – Amazon S3 File Gateway enables administrators to force the closing of locked files
Amazon S3 File Gateway now enables you to force-close locked files on SMB file shares on Amazon S3 File Gateway by providing access to local security groups. Amazon S3 File Gateway provides on-premises applications with file-based, cached access to virtually unlimited cloud storage using SMB and NFS protocols. End users and applications using files on […]
Azure – Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Public preview updates for November 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Microsoft Defender for Cloud in November 2021. Read More for the details.