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AWS – AWS Systems Manager announces new features for Session Manager to support maximum session timeout and annotate reason for starting the session
Today, AWS Systems Manager announces new features for Session Manager to support maximum session timeout and annotate the reason for starting a session. AWS Systems Manager is the operational hub for AWS, that provides a unified user interface to track and resolve operational issues across AWS applications from a central place. AWS Systems Manager Session […]
AWS – AWS Glue streaming ETL jobs now integrates with the AWS Glue Schema Registry
AWS Glue streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs can now read from AWS Glue Data Catalog tables created using the AWS Glue Schema Registry. With streaming ETL in AWS Glue, you can set up continuous ingestion pipelines to prepare streaming data on the fly and make it available for analysis in seconds. The AWS […]
Azure – Public preview availability of Virtual Machine restore points
Take multi-disk consistent point in time snapshots of all the disks attached to a VM for backup and disaster recovery purposes. Read More for the details.
Azure – India Central Availability Zones now generally available
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in India Central. These three new zones provide customers with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.
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 […]