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AWS – AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts
AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing the extract-transform-and-load (ETL) code it generates from your input in its visual ETL job editor. Previously, you needed to download and modify scripts themselves if you needed to customize the code. Now, you can use AWS Glue Studio’s visual editor to get started quickly and […]

GCP – Google Dataflow is a Leader in The 2021 Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics
We are excited to announce that Google has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021 report. Thank you to our strong community of customers and partners for working with us to deliver a customer focused product. We believe Forrester’s recognition is an acknowledgement of our leadership across an integrated set […]

GCP – Node, Python and Java repositories now available in Artifact Registry
As a developer, you need a secure place to store all your stuff: container images of course, but also language packages that can enable code reuse across multiple applications. Today, we’re pleased to announce support for Node.js, Python and Java repositories for Artifact Registry in Preview. With today’s announcement, you can not only use Artifact […]

Azure – Azure Backup: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or above for secure MARS agent backups by September 1, 2021
Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 ends September 1, 2021, please upgrade to TLS 1.2 to ensure secure and uninterrupted backups using MARS agent Read More for the details.

GCP – What’s next for SAP on Google Cloud—at SAPPHIRE NOW and beyond
The past year has been a period of rapid change for most businesses. The COVID pandemic, growing focus on sustainability, supply-chain disruptions, and other crises challenged all of us to adapt, evolve, and step up the pace of innovation. Today, we can see the results everywhere: a rapid transformation of the workplace, a raised bar […]

GCP – AI Simplified: Managing ML data sets with Vertex AI
At Google I/O this year, we introduced Vertex AI to bring together all our ML offerings into a single environment that lets you build and manage the lifecycle of ML projects. In a previous post, we gave you an overview of Vertex AI, sharing how it supports your entire ML workflow—from data management all the […]

GCP – One click retail: How Marxent uses Google Cloud to power self-service 3D shopping apps
As ecommerce for home goods exploded in popularity during COVID, furniture and DIY retailers looked to find new ways to grow online transaction sizes to in-store levels. Shopping for furniture and home improvement projects has always been challenging online. Furniture, kitchen cabinets, fixtures, and appliances become a part of daily life, are challenging to return, […]

GCP – How Lowe’s meets customer demand with Google SRE practices
Editor’s note: Today we hear from the Lowe’s SRE team. They share about how they have been able to increase the number of releases they can support by adopting Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) framework and leveraging their partnership with Google Cloud. At Lowe’s, we’ve made significant progress in our multiyear technology transformation. To modernize […]

GCP – Four steps to scale your quantitative investment research
Investment management is a heavily data-driven industry—portfolio managers and investment researchers require a large number of data sources to guide them in shaping their investment strategies. New cloud capabilities and technologies enable investment managers to process data faster than ever before and iterate on ideas quickly to fuel innovation in the signal generation process and […]
GCP – Google Cloud {Code_Love_Hack} Winners!
When we launched GKE Autopilot in February, we wanted to provide Google Cloud developers with the opportunity to be some of the first to give it a spin and experience the hands-off nodeless Kubernetes experience for themselves. We decided to host a hackathon all surrounded by the theme of spreading love – love of code, love of […]