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AWS – Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview)
Metrics Insights is a new feature from Amazon CloudWatch that is in preview. As a fast, flexible, SQL based query engine, Metrics Insights enables developers, operators, systems engineers, and cloud solutions architects to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real time and helps you use these insights to reduce time to […]
GCP – Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing toil
Almost two decades of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has proved the value of incorporating software engineering practices into traditional infrastructure and operations management. In a parallel world, we’re finding that similar principles can radically improve outcomes for the Security Operations Center (SOC), a domain plagued with infrastructure and operational challenges. As more organizations go through […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: November 2021
We’re coming up on the end of the year, yet many of the most pressing security themes from 2021 remain the same, from securing open source software, to enabling zero trust architectures and more. I’ll recap the latest updates from the Google Cybersecurity Action Team and industry progress on important security efforts in this month’s […]
GCP – Learn Beam patterns with Clickstream processing of Google Tag Manager data
Building your first pipeline can be a daunting task for a developer. When there are so many tools that can get the job done, how should you go about getting started? For power, flexibility, and ease of use, we find that the combination of Apache Beam and Dataflow offers developers a variety of ways to […]
AWS – Introducing intelligent user segmentation in Amazon Personalize, helping you to run more effective marketing campaigns
Amazon Personalize now offers intelligent user segmentation which allows you to run more effective prospecting campaigns through your marketing channels. Traditionally, user segmentation has relied on demographic information and manually curated business rules to make assumptions about users’ intentions and assign them to pre-defined audience segments. Amazon Personalize uses machine learning techniques to learn about your items, […]