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AWS – New course available: MLOps Engineering on AWS
We’re excited to announce the launch of MLOps Engineering on AWS, a three-day classroom training course from AWS Training and Certification. This course will help ML data platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and developers/operations staff responsible for operationalizing ML models bring DevOps-style practices into the building, training, and deployment of ML models. Read More for the […]
AWS – New exam for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Today, we are announcing that a new version of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam is now available. This is the first AWS Certification exam to allow candidates to demonstrate skills with exam labs. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate is intended for system administrators in cloud operations roles to validate technical skills. […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receipts
Amazon Textract, a machine learning service that extracts text and structured data from any document or image, now offers specialized support for invoices and receipts. Until today, these important documents were difficult to process at scale because they do not follow set design rules, and often require context to interpret correctly. For example, customers might […]
Azure – General Availability: Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code
Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code is for developers to easily author, test, debug, and manage Azure Stream Analytics jobs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pg_proctab extension to access PostgreSQL system stats in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_proctab extension in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. pg_proctab is a collection of stored functions that can access the operating systems process table so that system statistics can be queried through the database. pg_proctab functions make it easier to collect data on your PostgreSQL database including up-to-date information on […]
GCP – A container story – Google Kubernetes Engine
Sam (sysadmin) and Erin (developer) work at “Mindful Containers” , an imaginary company that sells sleeping pods for mindful breaks. One day, Sam calls Erin because her application has crashed during deployment, but it worked just fine on her workstation. They check logs, debug stuff, and eventually find version inconsistencies; the right dependencies were missing […]
AWS – New Amazon SageMaker Pipelines integrations with popular third-party tools
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), is now integrated with popular third-party source code repositories such as GitHub and BitBucket; and software development automation tool – Jenkins. Customers can now leverage the same tools that they use for managing the software development lifecycle for […]
GCP – Design considerations for SAP data modeling in BigQuery
Over the past few years, many organizations have experienced the benefits of migrating their SAP solutions to Google Cloud. But this migration can do more than reduce IT maintenance costs and make data more secure. By leveraging BigQuery, SAP customers can complement their SAP investments and gain fresh insights by consolidating enterprise data and easily […]
GCP – With software supply chain security, developers have a big role to play
When it comes to security headlines, 2021 has unfortunately been one for the record books. Colonial Pipeline, which supplies nearly half the United States East Coast’s gasoline, was the victim of a ransomware attack that forced it to take down its systems. Several high-profile breaches, on Kaseya, SolarWinds, Codecov, and others, gained global attention. To […]
GCP – Hey Google, show me the future of retail
Today we’re hosting our Retail & Consumer Goods Summit, a digital event dedicated to helping leading retailers and brands digitally transform their business. For me, this is a personally exciting moment, as I see tremendous opportunities for those companies that choose to focus on their customers and leverage technology to elevate experiences. Our event includes […]