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AWS – Customers can now manage AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry applications in AWS Systems Manager
AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now provide an end-to-end AWS application management experience. With this release, customers can use AppRegistry to create applications within their infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and post-provisioning processes, and use Application Manager to view application operational data and perform operational actions. Read More for the […]

AWS – Announcing General Availability of Tracing Support in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) for tracing, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this launch, customers can use OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs in Java, .Net, Python, Go, and JavaScript to collect and send traces to AWS X-Ray and monitoring destinations supported by the OpenTelemetry Protocol […]

GCP – Behind the scenes: WebGL-powered Maps demos for Google I/O
In preparation for the announcement of the beta release of WebGL-powered Maps features at Google I/O 2021, the Google Maps Platform team worked with Ubilabs, a Google Cloud partner since 2012, to show developers what’s possible when 3D rendering comes to the map. The first of these demos, ‘Google Maps Platform WebGL-powered Maps Features,’ walks […]

GCP – Cloud DNS explained!
How many times have you heard this: “It’s not DNS.”“NO way it is DNS.”“It was the DNS!” When you are building and managing cloud native or hybrid cloud applications you don’t want to add more stuff to your plate, especially not DNS. DNS is one of the necessary services for your application to function but […]

GCP – Building the data engineering driven organization from the first principles
In the “What type of data processing organisation” paper, we examined that you can build a data culture whether your organization consists mostly of data analysts, or data engineers, or data scientists. However, the path and technologies to become a data-driven innovator are different and success comes from implementing the right tech in a way […]

GCP – Data Driven Price Optimization
When companies can optimize their pricing to take into account market conditions dynamically, they can use it as an important lever for differentiation. In order to optimize pricing, organizations need to be able to respond to market changes faster, which means optimizing for a continuum of decisions (such as list price or promotions) and context […]

GCP – Announcing Apigee’s native support for managing lifecycle of GraphQL APIs
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the de facto standard for building and connecting technology solutions. They facilitate software-to-software interactions that allow developers to leverage data and functionality at scale. APIs come in various styles such as REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and Async, and each style has its own features. Picking the right API style completely depends […]

AWS – Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Region. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows digital marketers and application developers to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. To learn more about Amazon SES, visit this page. Read […]

AWS – AWS WAF now offers in-line regular expressions
AWS WAF extends its regular expression (regex) support, allowing regex patterns to be expressed in-line within a rule statement. Previously, you had to create a regex pattern set, which provides a collection of regex patterns in a rule statement, even if you wanted to use just a single regex pattern in your WAF rule logic. […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.09
This quality release includes an upgrade to the Linux Kernel and bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS. Read More for the details.