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AWS – Announcing AWS AppSync Merged APIs for GraphQL federation
AWS AppSync enables developers to build serverless, scalable and performant GraphQL APIs that are designed to securely connect their apps to data and events. Today, we announce the general availability of Merged APIs, which enable GraphQL schema composition and federation for AppSync APIs. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google is named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services report
Gartner has named Google a Leader in the2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services (CAIDS). This is the fourth year in a row that Google has been named a Leader and we believe this is because of Google Cloud’s portfolio being one of the most comprehensive and innovative in the market for developers. […]
GCP – How Apigee can help government agencies adopt Zero Trust
Securely sharing data is critical to building an effective government application ecosystem. Rather than building new applications, APIs can enable government leaders to gather data-driven insights within their existing technical environments. With the help of APIs, agencies can bring application-based information together to support their objectives. U.S. government agencies are now encouraged to adopt a […]
GCP – Streaming graph data with Confluent Cloud and Neo4j on Google Cloud
There are many ways to classify data. Data can be characterized as batch and streaming. Similarly data can be characterized as tabular or connected. In this blog post, we’re going to explore an architecture focused on a particular kind of data — connected data which is streaming. Neo4j is the leading graph database. It stores […]
GCP – Vertex AI Embeddings for Text: Grounding LLMs made easy
Many people are now starting to think about how to bring Gen AI and large language models (LLMs) to production services. You may be wondering “How to integrate LLMs or AI chatbots with existing IT systems, databases and business data?”, “We have thousands of products. How can I let LLM memorize them all precisely?”, or […]
GCP – Introducing partitioning and clustering recommendations for optimizing BigQuery usage
Do you have a lot of BigQuery tables? Do you find it hard to keep track of which ones are partitioned and clustered, and which ones could be? If so, we have good news. We’re launching a partitioning and clustering recommender that will do the work for you! The recommender analyzes all your organization’s workloads […]
GCP – Scaling reaction-based enumeration for next-gen drug discovery using Google Cloud
Discovering new drugs is at the heart of modern medicine, yet finding a “needle in the haystack” is immensely challenging due to the enormous number of possible drug-like compounds (estimated at 10^60 or more). To increase our chances of finding breakthrough medicines for patients with unmet medical needs, we need to explore the vast universe […]
GCP – Transform your unstructured data with AI using BigQuery object tables, now GA
Today, the vast majority of data that gets generated in the world is unstructured (text, audio, images), but only a fraction of it ever gets analyzed. The AI pipelines required to unlock the value of this data are siloed from mainstream analytic systems, requiring engineers to build custom data infrastructure to integrate structured and unstructured […]
AWS – Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.27
Kubernetes 1.27 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.27. Starting today, you can create new 1.27 clusters or upgrade your existing clusters to 1.27 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line […]
AWS – AWS DataSync is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region
AWS DataSync is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. You can now use DataSync to copy data between on-premises, edge, or other cloud storage and AWS Storage services, as well as between AWS Storage services in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. Read More for the details.