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GCP – Next ’21 is on: Top five things to do at Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Next is less than a week away. Register now to join us October 12–14, 2021, for our no-cost, three-day flagship event to discover live and on-demand content that allows you to connect with experts, see the latest tech in action, and sharpen your skills around all things cloud. To make the most of […]
GCP – How Cherre transforms real estate data with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Editor’s note: Today we are hearing from Ben Hizak, co-founder of Cherre. He shares Cherre’s approach to consolidating multiple data sets into one data warehouse to power BI and analytics for their customers. He explains how the company uses Google Cloud and Cloud SQL to bring real estate datasets together and help customers make better […]
GCP – Making public services more accessible with AI-powered translations from Google Cloud
Editor’s note: This article has originally been published on our German blog. Imagine you’ve done your due diligence for your upcoming trip to the local authority office. You’ve filled out the relevant forms, booked the appointment, found the correct points of contact. But, as much as you’ve prepared, there’s one aspect of your visit you […]
GCP – Dataflow Pipelines, deploy and manage data pipelines at scale
We see data engineers use Dataflow for a wide variety of their data processing needs, ranging from ingesting data into their data warehouses and data lakes to processing data for machine learning use cases to implementing sophisticated streaming analytics applications. While the use cases and what customers do varies, there is one common need that […]
GCP – Automated onboarding: How USAA’s security team onboards users to GCP
Since 1922, technology and innovation have played an integral role in USAA’s ability to serve military members and their families. As membership has grown to over 13 million, the services required to meet members’ needs have also evolved. As a result, application teams across our banking and insurance businesses have turned to Google Cloud to […]
GCP – Accelerating the journey to the cloud with a product mindset
The migration of storage and computing workloads to the Cloud is increasing the pressure for CXOs to maintain a zero data footprint and accelerate the journey to the Cloud. However, this process is much more than just a technology transformation. After more than 40 years building and scaling highly efficient data centers, many organizations are […]
GCP – Get started, build and grow your Startup on Google Cloud
We understand how crucial it is for startups that are experimenting with technologies, to get the right support on this journey, build fast, optimize and scale. At Google Cloud, we want to help you build your business and partner with you at every stage of your startup journey. Elevate your startup with our how-to guided […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas
You can now use Amazon Neptune Auto Scaling to automatically add or remove Read Replicas in response to changes in performance metrics you specify. Neptune Read Replicas share the same underlying volume as the primary instance and are well suited for read scaling. With Neptune Auto Scaling, you can specify a desired value for CloudWatch […]
GCP – Serving predictions & evaluating Recommendations AI
In this post we’ll show how to use Recommendations AI to display predictions on a live website and set up A/B experiments to measure performance. A/B testing involves creating two or more versions of a page and then splitting user traffic into groups to determine the impact of those changes. This is the most effective […]
AWS – Amazon Lex launches progress updates for fulfillment
Starting today, you can configure your Amazon Lex bots to provide periodic updates to users while their requests are processed. Customer support conversations often require execution of business logic that can take some time to complete. For example, updating an itinerary on an airline reservation system may take a couple of minutes during peak hours. […]
