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AWS – New Amazon Builders’ Library Article: Making retries safe with idempotent APIs
The Amazon Builders’ Library published a new article titled, Making retries safe with idempotent APIs . AWS Principal Engineer Malcolm Featonby write about how you can use APIs to manage retries, he walks you through the strategies used at Amazon for using idempotent APIs to reduce complexity and handle retries. Read More for the details.
GCP – Eventarc: A unified eventing experience in Google Cloud
I recently talked about orchestration versus choreography in connecting microservices and introduced Workflows for use cases that can benefit from a central orchestrator. I also mentioned Eventarc and Pub/Sub in the choreography camp for more loosely coupled event-driven architectures. In this blog post, I talk more about the unified eventing experience by Eventarc. What is […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in four additional regions AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) feature that allows customers to find objects and scenes in images, unique to their business needs, with a simple […]
Azure – Azure Sphere OS version 21.01 is now available for evaluation
Learn more about compatibility testing with Azure Sphere OS version 21.01. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now available on AWS Graviton2
AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, a fully managed, integrated, and pay-as-you-go container monitoring and analytics service for CloudWatch on AWS Graviton2. CloudWatch Container Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your container metrics, Prometheus metrics, application logs, and performance events through automated dashboards in the CloudWatch console. These dashboards summarize […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X1 and X1e instances are now available in additional AWS regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 X1 and X1e instances are available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions. X1 and X1e instances are memory-optimized instances designed for running large-scale and in-memory applications in the AWS Cloud. X1 instances offer up to 1,952 GiB of memory while X1e instances offer up to 3,904 […]
AWS – Introducing update to Multi-Region Application Architecture
The AWS Solutions team recently updated Multi-Region Application Architecture, a reference architecture that models a serverless active/passive workload with asynchronous replication of application data and failover from a primary to a secondary AWS Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – The democratization of data and insights: making real-time analytics ubiquitous
In our first blog post in this series, we talked broadly about the democratization of data and insights. Our second blog took a deeper look at insights derived specifically from machine learning, and how Google Cloud has worked to push those capabilities to more users across the data landscape. In our third and final blog […]
GCP – How we’re helping to reshape the software supply chain ecosystem securely
As we start the new year, we see ongoing revelations about an attack involving SolarWinds and others, that in turn led to the compromise of numerous other organizations. Software supply chain attacks like this pose a serious threat to governments, companies, non-profits, and individuals alike. At Google, we work around the clock to protect our […]
GCP – Cloud Profiler provides app performance insights, without the overhead
Do you have an application that’s a little… sluggish? Cloud Profiler, Google Cloud’s continuous application profiling tool, can quickly find poor performing code that slows your app performance and drives up your compute bill. In fact, by helping you find the source of memory leaks and other errors, Profiler has helped some of Google Cloud’s […]