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GCP – 7 tips for trouble-free ML model training
Intro Vertex AI offers a fully managed training service, Vertex AI Training, which provides a set of prebuilt algorithms and enables you to create ML models using custom training. Machine learning (ML) engineers are responsible for training ML models. In most situations, training completes successfully, but it does sometimes fail. When it does, engineers often […]

GCP – Enable query tagging with Sqlcommenter to understand application impact on database performance
Cloud SQL Insights launched earlier this year, giving developers a tool that helps detect, diagnose, and prevent query performance problems for PostgreSQL for Cloud SQL databases. Out of the box, the Query Insights dashboard provides database load graphs, detailed query performance, and built-in query plans. Users can boost the power of Insights by enabling query […]

GCP – Ad agencies choose BigQuery to drive campaign performance
Advertising agencies are faced with the challenge of providing the precision data that marketers require to make better decisions at a time when customers’ digital footprints are rapidly changing. They need to transform customer information and real-time data into actionable insights to inform clients what to execute to ensure the highest campaign performance. In this […]

GCP – Sqlcommenter now extending the vision of OpenTelemetry to databases
Database observability is important to every DevOps team. In order to troubleshoot a slow running application, developers, DBAs, data engineers or SREs use a variety of tools for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) that need access to database activity. This makes it imperative for database telemetry to be easily accessible and integrated seamlessly with your choice […]

GCP – Expanding Google Cloud’s Commitment to Startups
This week, we’re excited to host our first ever Google Cloud Startup Summit, where we’ll bring together innovative companies and voices from across startup and investor ecosystems, and highlight some of the amazing work that startups are doing today with Google Cloud. We’re committed to helping companies build with cloud technology at every stage of […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.09 expected on Sept 22
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Index Transforms
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports index transforms that enables customers to extract significant information from large data sets and store summarized views in new indices. Customers can derive new insights, further analyze, and visualize trends from the new summary index. Read More for the details.

AWS – OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new visual reporting feature, now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new feature that enables OpenSearch users to interactively and collaboratively develop rich reports backed by live data and queries. A notebook is a document made up of cells or paragraphs that can combine markdown, SQL and Piped Processing Language (PPL) queries, and visualizations with support for […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Data Streams with OpenSearch 1.0 to simplify management of time-series data
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports data streams to help simplify management of time-series data such as logs, metrics, and traces. Data streams abstract the underlying indexes required for your time-series data, the rollover process, and the optimizations required to efficiently manage and query time-based data, reducing operational overhead. You can move your older rolled-over indexes […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now Amazon OpenSearch Service; adds support for OpenSearch 1.0
Amazon Elasticsearch Service has a new name: Amazon OpenSearch Service. This change, which was previously announced here, coincides with the addition of support for OpenSearch 1.0. You can now run and scale both OpenSearch and Elasticsearch (until version 7.10) clusters on Amazon OpenSearch Service and get all of the same benefits you have enjoyed so […]