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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.
GCP – Deploying the Cloud Spanner Emulator remotely
Welcome to the third part of our series on the Cloud Spanner Emulator. In the first part, we got an overview of Cloud Spanner and the emulator, as well as the various ways that it can be provisioned. In the second part, we explored the various options available for running the emulator locally, as well […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now provides you more granular control of audit logging by enabling you to filter Streams data-plane API activity in AWS CloudTrail
You now can use AWS CloudTrail to filter and retrieve Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activity, giving you more granular control over which DynamoDB API calls you want to selectively log and pay for in CloudTrail and to help address compliance and auditing requirements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lex announces utterances statistics for bots built using Lex V2 console and API
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, Amazon Lex makes utterances statistics available through the Amazon Lex V2 console and API. You can now use utterances statistics to tune bots built on Lex V2 console and APIs to further improve conversational experience for your users. […]