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AWS – Announcing New Segmentation Capabilities for Amazon Pinpoint
Amazon Pinpoint now provides customers additional filters to perform more granular segmentation. Amazon Pinpoint customers can now increase the level of campaign and message personalization by being able to reach more specific audiences. Read More for the details.
GCP – Top 5 trends for API-powered digital transformation in 2021
Our “State of the API Economy 2021” report confirms that though digital transformation has been among enterprises’ top business imperatives for years, the COVID-19 pandemic and changing market conditions have increased this urgency. Organizations across the world weathered the pandemic by compressing years of digital transformation into just a few months. Our research reflects this […]
GCP – Think big: Why Ricardo chose Bigtable to complement BigQuery
With over 3.7 million members, Ricardo is the most trusted, convenient, and largest online marketplace in Switzerland. We successfully migrated from on-prem to Google Cloud in 2019, a move that also raised some new use cases that we were keen to solve. With our on-premises data center closing, we were under deadline to find a […]
GCP – Deeper map customization with zoom level customization and industry optimized map styles
Some of the most impactful decisions made when designing a map involve what to show at each zoom level to best help the map viewer make a choice or take an action. Our team is always evaluating and optimizing content and geometry across zoom ranges to determine when to show points of interest (POIs), road labels, […]
GCP – Lock Statistics: Diagnose performance issues in Cloud Spanner
A real-world scenario Imagine you are working on an e-commerce application, powered by a Cloud Spanner database. The app is performing as expected and your transactions are executing with low latency. One day, you hear a complaint that your app has slowed down, so you decide to investigate. One possibility is that the problem could […]
AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector launches ability to cancel in-progress model trainings
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud, using customized machine learning (ML) models. In just a few clicks you can create and train a fraud detection model, with no prior machine learning experience […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family console further simplifies Snow data transfer and compute job creation and management
The AWS Snow Family console has been enhanced to make it easier for you to create and monitor your Snow data transfer and compute jobs. In addition to an improved user experience, the AWS Snow Family console will enable you to more easily understand which Snow device is more suitable for your use case depending on […]
GCP – Implementing leader election on Google Cloud Storage
Leader election is a commonly applied pattern for implementing distributed systems. For example, replicated relational databases such as MySQL, or distributed key-value stores such as Apache Zookeeper, choose a leader (sometimes referred to as master) among the replicas. All write operations go through the leader, so only a single node is writing to the system […]
GCP – How Cloud Operations helps users of Wix’s Velo development platform provide a better customer experience
With more and more businesses moving online, and homegrown entrepreneurs spinning up new online apps, they’re increasingly looking for an online development platform to help them easily build and deploy their sites. Many choose Velo by Wix because it’s an open web development platform with an intuitive visual builder that accelerates front-end development and comes […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Release 5.32 now supports Amazon EMR on EKS, and EMR Studio Preview
Amazon EMR Release 5.32 now supports Amazon EMR on EKS. For more details on getting started with EMR on EKS, please see our documentation. Read More for the details.