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Azure – Azure Resource Health for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in public preview
With Azure Resource Health, diagnose and get support for service problems that affect Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Database for MySQL: Azure Pipelines support in public preview
Deploy a SQL file or inline script to push changes to one or more databases with Azure Pipelines for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server using Azure CLI tasks. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now includes PgBouncer version 1.16
Create a Hyperscale (Citus) server group and use PgBouncer 1.16 as a part of this server group by connecting to port 6432 for connection to the coordinator. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure SQL Database: General availability updates for late September 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late September 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Distributed tracing for Java apps on Azure Functions Linux
Distributed tracing for Java apps on Azure Functions can now be enabled through Azure portal. This integration provides additional insights into end-to-end transactions that were not previously supported, completes the application map, which aggregates many transactions to show a topological view your system, and lets you detect and diagnose performance bottlenecks. Read More for the […]
Azure – Announcing general availability of Azure AD-joined VMs support
You can now deploy Azure AD-joined VMs in your host pools for Azure Virtual Desktop. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Functions runtime 4.0 is now in public preview
Azure Functions 4.0 includes support for .NET 6. Read More for the details.
GCP – Understanding Cloud SQL maintenance: how do you manage it?
Picture this: you’ve just set up a mission-critical database on Cloud SQL and you’re excitedly preparing to turn on live traffic. As you go through your final launch checklist, you recall that Cloud SQL schedules routine maintenance. You pause to consider whether your system is set up properly to account for these maintenance updates. In […]
GCP – Dual deployments on Vertex AI
In this post, we will cover an end-to-end workflow enabling dual model deployment scenarios using Kubeflow, TensorFlow Extended (TFX), and Vertex AI. We will start with the motivation behind the project and then we will move over to the approaches we realized as a part of this project. We will conclude the post by going […]
GCP – What’s your org’s reliability mindset? Insights from Google SREs
Editor’s note: There’s more to ensuring a product’s reliability than following a bunch of prescriptive rules. Today, we hear from some Google SREs—Vartika Agarwal, Senior Technical Program Manager, Development; Tracy Ferrell, Senior SRE Manager; Mahesh Palekar, Director SRE; and Magi Agrama, Senior Technical Program Manager, SRE—about how to evaluate your team’s current reliability mindset, and […]