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GCP – Cloud SQL extends PostgreSQL 9.6 version support beyond end-of-life
Our mission with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is compatibility; we want our users to be able to run their applications unchanged while using Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL as their relational database management system (RDBMS). Thefinal release for PostgreSQL 9.6 is slated for November 11th, 2021. This is a good time to consider upgrading to a […]
GCP – Are we there yet? Thoughts on assessing an SRE team’s maturity
One facet of our work as Customer Reliability Engineers—Google Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) tapped to help Google Cloud customers develop that practice in their own organizations—is advising operations or SRE teams to improve their operational maturity. We’ve noticed a recurring question cropping up across many of these discussions, usually phrased along the lines of “is […]
GCP – Orchestrating your data workloads in Google Cloud
At its core, Data and Analytics allows us to make impactful decisions by deriving insights from our data. In the pursuit of making data meaningful, data scientists and engineers are often tasked with building end-to-end workflows to ingest, process and analyze data. These workflows will usually involve multiple tasks, or services that need to be […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, and 9.6.21
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 versions 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, and 9.6.21. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6 will reach end of life on January 31, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pg_bigm extension for faster full text search
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_bigm extension. 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.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports the pg_proctab Extension to access PostgreSQL system stats
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_proctab extension. pg_proctab is a collection of stored functions that can access the operating systems process table so that system statistics can be queried through the database. pg_proctab functions make it easier to collect data on your PostgreSQL database including up-to-date information on processor and I/O statistics on […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pg_partman extension for managing time or serial id based table partitioning
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition supports the Partition Manager (pg_partman) extension. pg_partman is a PostgreSQL extension that helps you to manage both time series and serial-based table partition sets, including automatic management of partition creation and runtime maintenance. pg_partman works with PostgreSQL native partitioning so users can benefit from significant performance enhancements. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports pg_cron extension for scheduling database jobs
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_cron extension. 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. pg_cron includes an AWS open source […]
Azure – Public preview: Alerts based smart detection for Application Insights
Get your anomaly detections as alerts, manage smart detection using alert rules, and configure notifications for smart detection alerts using action groups. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions
Workflow Studio is a new visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions that makes it faster and easier to build workflows using a drag and drop interface in the AWS console. Read More for the details.