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GCP – Save money and time with automated VM management and suspend/resume
A key benefit of cloud computing is that you can easily create and delete computing resources, paying only for what you use. While production virtual machines (VMs) tend to run constantly, some are only needed when running batch jobs, while others like development or test environments are typically used only during business hours. Keeping VMs […]
GCP – Google invests 1 billion euros in Germany’s digital future
In September 2001, the first-ever German Google employee switched on their computer in Hamburg. Since then, we’ve grown to more than 2,500 employees in four offices across Germany. Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich have long been our home, and we continue to invest in the growth of the local economy. Today, 20 years after the […]
GCP – What are the newest datasets in Google Cloud?
Editor’s note: With Google Cloud’s datasets solution, you can access an ever-expanding resource of the newest datasets to support and empower your analyses and ML models, as well as frequently updated best practices on how to get the most out of any of our datasets. We will be regularly updating this blog with new datasets […]
GCP – How Blibli manages updates for stateful and stateless applications on GKE
At Blibli, an Indonesian business-to-consumer Ecommerce provider, we run most of our IT infrastructure— including both stateful and stateless applications such as Redis, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot, Jenkins, and Grafana—on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). GKE provides a scalable and reliable managed service of Kubernetes. It integrates well with other Google Cloud services. And on GKE, we’re […]
GCP – Improve gRPC service availability and efficiency with Traffic Director
Traffic Director is Google Cloud’s fully managed traffic control plane for service mesh and helps you manage traffic flows between gRPC-based services. For example, you can split traffic between multiple versions of your services for canary or blue/green deployments. You can manage this centrally (for example, by issuing API calls to Traffic Director) without having […]
GCP – Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supports Linux Huge Pages
We are excited to announce that Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supportsLinux Huge Pages by default. If your instance has more than 2 GB of RAM then your PostgreSQL instance will use Linux Huge Pages for shared memory. This means the shared memory in your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance will now use 2MB pages […]
GCP – Why API-first is the best approach to application integration
Enterprises need to move faster than ever to gain a competitive advantage in today’s customer-focused environment. Time-to-market for products and services has shortened dramatically, from years to days. IT teams must move fast, react fast, and enable business strategies via constant innovation. All of this digital transformation is about more than adopting the latest technologies. […]
AWS – AWS Backint Agent now supports Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering, sending log and data backups to separate folders, and Ansible
AWS Backint Agent now supports three new features: Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering, the ability to send log and data backups to separate folders, and compatibility with Ansible. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute Direct locations available
ExpressRoute Direct gives you the ability to connect directly into Microsoft’s global network at peering locations strategically distributed around the world. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudFormation introduces the option to troubleshoot provisioning errors before rollback, accelerating deployments
AWS CloudFormation users can now choose to preserve the state of successfully deployed resources in the event of CloudFormation stack operation errors. Using this feature, you can retry the operation using an updated CloudFormation template and quickly iterate through feedback loops, shortening development cycles. Read More for the details.