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GCP – How to detect machine-learned anomalies in real-time foreign exchange data
Let’s say you are a quantitative trader with access to real-time foreign exchange (forex) price data from your favorite market data provider. Perhaps you have adata partner subscription, or you’re using a synthetic data generator to prove value first. You know there must be thousands of other quants out there with your same goal. How […]

GCP – How Anthos clusters on AWS delivers on the promise of multicloud
Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Naohiko Takemura, Head of Engineering, and Kosukex Oya, Engineer, both from Japanese customer experience platform PLAID. The company runs its platform in a multicloud environment through Anthos clusters on AWS and shares more on its experiences and best practices. At PLAID, our mission is to maximize the value of people […]

Azure – Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now compliant with additional certifications
New certifications are now available for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure. Read More for the details.

GCP – Build a platform with KRM: Part 1 – What’s in a platform?
This is the first post in a multi-part series on building developer platforms with the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM). In today’s digital world, it’s more important than ever for organizations to quickly develop and land features, scale up, recover fast during outages, and do all this in a secure, compliant way. If you’re a developer, […]

AWS – AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton, the first fully managed delivery service for container and serverless applications. It is designed to provide platform teams the management tools, governance, and visibility needed to provide consistent standards and best practices when managing deployments, while helping to increase developer productivity and innovation. Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito is now available in the Middle East (BAH) Region
Amazon Cognito is now available in the Middle East (BAH) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via […]

Azure – Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Single Server: Planned Maintenance Notifications in general availability
Set up alerts on the Azure portal to be notified about planned deployments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Single Server, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early June 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021 Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server standby server selection in public preview
Select your standby server zone for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure SQL: General availability updates for early June 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021 Read More for the details.