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AWS – Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview
You can now create secure continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that follow your organization’s best practices with a new pipeline configuration capability for serverless applications. AWS Serverless Application Model Pipelines (AWS SAM Pipelines) is a new feature of AWS SAM CLI that gives you access to benefits of CI/CD in minutes, such as accelerating […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pg_bigm extension for faster full text search in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_bigm extension in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. pg_bigm extension provides full text search capability in PostgreSQL. This extension allows a user to create *2-gram* (bigram) index for faster full text search. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Storage internals
So far on the BigQuery Admin Reference Guide series, we’ve talked about the different logical resources available inside of BigQuery. Now, we’re going to begin talking about BigQuery’s architecture. In this post we’re diving into how BigQuery stores your data in native storage, and what levers you can pull to optimize how your data is […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports pg_cron extension for scheduling database jobs in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_cron extension in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. pg_cron allows you to use cron syntax to schedule PostgreSQL commands directly within your database. You can use pg_cron to schedule tasks such as periodically rolling up data for analytic reports, refreshing materialized views, and scheduling vacuum jobs to reclaim storage. […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, and 9.6.21 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, and 9.6.21 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6 will reach end of […]
AWS – Announcing Automatic Revision Publishing for AWS Data Exchange
Providers using AWS Data Exchange can now publish new revisions to their data products more easily. Before this launch, providers were required to take both finalization and publishing steps to add new revisions to products. Additionally, if a revision was included in multiple products, providers had to take other publishing actions for each individual product […]
GCP – GKE best practices: Create a cost-optimized cluster in just a few clicks
No one wants to spend more on compute infrastructure than they have to—and that includes your Kubernetes platform. With Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the easiest way to stand up a cost-optimized cluster is to choose GKE Autopilot. However, some organizations may not be ready to use Autopilot yet. For them, there’s our guide, Best practices […]
GCP – Bringing Kubernetes’ goodness to Windows Server apps with Anthos
Today, many applications in organizations’ data centers run on Windows Server. Modernizing these traditional Windows apps onto Kubernetes promises a host of benefits: a consistent platform across environments, better portability, scalability, availability, simplified management and speed of deployment, just to name a few. But how? Rewriting traditional .NET applications to run on Linux with .NET […]
GCP – How Cloud Bigtable helps Ravelin detect retail fraud with low latency
Editor’s note: Today we are hearing from Jono MacDougall , Principal Software Engineer at Ravelin. Ravelin delivers market-leading online fraud detection and payment acceptance solutions for online retailers. To help us meet the scaling, throughput, and latency demands of our growing roster of large-scale clients, we migrated to Google Cloud and its suite of managed […]
GCP – New Paper: Assuring Compliance in the Cloud
Cloud transformation and the adoption of modern DevOps technology presents both opportunities and challenges for IT compliance functions. With DevOps style application development, the feedback loop for developers and engineers is much tighter than with traditional application development pipelines, enabling speed and agility of application release cycles. While speedy CI/CD is a critical advantage of […]