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GCP – State of no-code app-development
It’s no secret that the world is changing faster than ever. Before 2020 became, well, 2020, businesses knew that digital transformation was critical, yet few were prepared to make the pivot. The events of last year caused a forcing function, accelerating the need for change in organizations around the globe. Problem solving required a democratized […]
GCP – A year of API-driven digital transformation
2020 was a challenging year for many organizations as they faced sudden changes in consumer behavior and market dynamics. The shift to digital channels is nothing new, and even in 2019, digital was already the preferred option for commerce and collaboration across many industries—but in the wake of the global pandemic, these channels became the […]
AWS – Amazon API Gateway now supports data mapping in HTTP APIs
Amazon API Gateway now supports data mapping definitions from an HTTP API’s method request data (e.g. path parameters, query string and headers) to the corresponding integration request parameters and from the integration response data (e.g. headers) to the HTTP API method response parameters. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Config console streamlines resource configuration and compliance management
We’ve updated the AWS Config console to make it more efficient for you to track your AWS resource configuration changes, and monitor your AWS Config rule and conformance packs compliance. The new AWS Config console experience now includes features, such as Advanced Query, Aggregators, and resource configuration and compliance timeline pages. Read More for the […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System
AWS Transfer Family now supports file transfers for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, enabling AWS Transfer Family customers to easily and securely provide their business partners and end customers access to files stored in Amazon EFS file systems for use cases such as data distribution, supply chain workflows, content management, and web […]
AWS – Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver – now in preview
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Java (JDBC) Driver for MySQL is now available in preview. This open source database driver helps applications take advantage of clustered databases, such as Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility, reducing failover times from minutes to seconds. Read More for the details.
Azure – Built-in Azure Policy support for NSG Flow Logs is now available
Network security group (NSG) Flow Logs can now be deployed and managed using built-in Azure policies. You don’t need to write your own policies to manage NSG Flow Log deployments. Read More for the details.
GCP – The Magic Of Distributed Joins in Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner is a relational database management system and as such it supports the relational join operation. Joins in Spanner are complicated by the fact that all tables and indexes are sharded into splits. Every split of a table or index is managed by a specific server and in general each server is responsible for […]
GCP – Behind the scenes of Cloud Spanner’s ExecuteQuery request
This post is going to shed some light on the magic that happens when an application executes a query against Cloud Spanner. How does Spanner take an arbitrary SQL statement, locate the data, and return the response in milliseconds? We will take some of the concepts described inSIGMOD’17 paper and explain, step by step, how […]