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GCP – Best practices for translating websites with Translation API
Looking to translate your website? Google Cloud can help! Google Cloud Translation API is a service that dynamically translates between languages with Google’s state-of-the-art Machine Learning models. It is a highly scalable API that supports over one hundred languages, with built-in language detection. In this blog post, we will share some best practices for optimizing […]
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds new inconsistency detectors
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages automated reasoning and machine learning to detect potential code defects that are difficult to find and offers suggestions for improvements. Today, we are announcing the addition of a new set of detectors that can identify inconsistencies within a code repository. These inconsistency detectors are a new type […]
GCP – How to check all the right boxes for your cloud migration before you get started
Cloud adoption and migrations have continued to accelerate over the years. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of the Cloud report, 31% of respondents spend at least $12,000,000 per year on public cloud, which is up from 16% in the same survey in 2020. Additionally, enterprises already run about 47% of their workloads and store 44% […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is Now HIPAA Eligible
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is a HIPAA eligible service. This means you can use AWS Network Firewall to secure and inspect protected health information (PHI) stored in your accounts. Read More for the details.
GCP – What is Cloud SQL?
If you are building an application, chances are you will need a relational database for transaction processing. That’s where Cloud SQL comes in. It is a fully managed relational database for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server. It reduces maintenance cost and automates database provisioning, storage capacity management, backups and out of the box High availability […]
GCP – Staying Ahead of New Regulations in APAC
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen our customers across the globe increase their use of cloud services, in large part due to an increase in e-commerce activities, digitization efforts, and the move to remote work. This shift has put further emphasis on the importance of security and control in cloud computing. Cloud […]
GCP – How Lowe’s SRE reduced its mean time to recovery (MTTR) by over 80 percent
Editor’s Note: In a previous blog, we discussed how home improvement retailer Lowe’s was able to increase the number of releases it supports by adopting Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) framework on Google Cloud. Lowe’s went from one release every two weeks to 20+ releases daily, helping meet its customer needs faster and more effectively. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports MSDTC JDBC XA for SQL Server 2017 CU16+ and SQL Server 2019
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports MSDTC JDBC XA transactions. With MSDTC you can either execute the transaction using SQL Server as the Transaction manager using linked servers, or you can promote MSDTC running on the same host as the Client application to the role of Transaction manager. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure App Service support for Availability Zones reaches general availability
This new feature provides high availability for web applications to enhance business continuity and support disaster recovery strategies. Read More for the details.
AWS – Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry
Amazon EventBridge schema registry now supports discovery of cross-account events published to an event bus. The EventBridge schema registry stores event structure – or schema – in a shared central location and maps those schemas to code for Java, Python, and Typescript to use events as objects in your code. Schemas from your event bus […]