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GCP – Introducing Monitoring Query Language, now GA in Cloud Monitoring
Developers and operators on IT and development teams want powerful metric querying, analysis, charting, and alerting capabilities to troubleshoot outages, perform root cause analysis, create custom SLI / SLOs, reports and analytics, set up complex alert logic, and more. So today we’re excited to announce the General Availability of Monitoring Query Language (MQL) in Cloud […]
GCP – Tips for writing and deploying Node.js apps on Cloud Functions
The DPE Client Library team at Google handles the release maintenance, and support of Google Cloud client libraries. Essentially, we act as the open-source maintainers of Google’s 350+ repositories on GitHub. It’s a big job… For this work to scale, it’s been critical to automate various common tasks such as validating licenses, managing releases, and […]
Azure – Ingress logs are now available for Azure Time Series Insights environments
Azure Time Series Insights has released Azure Monitor Logs for errors that occur in the ingress pipeline. This category includes errors that occur when receiving events (such as failures to connect to an Event Source) and processing events (such as errors when parsing an event payload). Read More for the details.
AWS – Service Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
We’ve added support for tagging and attribute-based access control (ABAC) for Service Quotas in your AWS account. You can now attach tags, or user-defined attributes, to applied quotas, enabling you to easily identify, classify, or categorize applied quotas in your AWS account. Applied quotas, or account-specific quotas, are overrides that are specific to your account […]
AWS – Introducing Service Workbench on AWS
Service Workbench on AWS is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that enables IT teams to provide secure, repeatable, and federated control of access to data, tools, and compute power that researchers need. With Service Workbench on AWS, researchers no longer have to worry about configuring and managing cloud infrastructure. Instead, they can focus on achieving […]
GCP – Managed cloud databases bring speed, scale and new features for ecobee customers
Ecobee is a Toronto-based maker of smart home solutions that help improve the everyday lives of customers while creating a more sustainable world. They moved from on-premises systems to managed services with Google Cloud to add capacity and scale and develop new products and features faster. Here’s how they did it and how they’ve saved […]
GCP – A revolution is coming for data and the cloud: 6 predictions for 2021
Offering predictions can be a challenge, because specific predictions depend on specific timeframes. But looking at the trends that we’re seeing in cloud adoption, there are a few things I’ve seen in 2020 that imply changes we will be seeing in 2021. As someone who was a network engineer when the internet revolution happened, I […]
GCP – In case you missed it: here’s what happened in data analytics in 2020
2020 was a tough year. As the global pandemic spread and impacted every country, industry, and individual, we turned to data and analytics to help guide us through the unknown. We used data and the cloud to help us understand the spread of COVID-19 while simultaneously digitally transforming industries to offer a safer way for […]
GCP – Top 9 posts from Google Cloud in 2020
In 2020, everything changed. Who would have expected that how we live, work, communicate, and learn would be different by the end of the year? At Google Cloud, we saw how COVID-19 forced changes not only in how our customers worked in offices, but also how software developers and IT practitioners innovated. To support these […]
GCP – 2020: The year in databases at Google Cloud
2020 was a year unlike any other, and all its unexpectedness brought foundational enterprise technology into the spotlight. Businesses needed their databases to be reliable, scalable, and consistently well-performing. As a result, migration plans accelerated, rigid licensing fell further out of favor, and transformative application development sped up. This was clear even in 2019, when […]