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GCP – Real-time data processing for machine learning with Striim and BigQuery
In today’s data-driven world, the ability to leverage real-time data for machine learning applications is a game-changer. Two key players in this field, Striim and Google Cloud with BigQuery, offer a powerful combination to make this possible. Striim serves as a real-time data integration platform that seamlessly and continuously moves data from diverse sources to […]

GCP – Monitoring for every runtime: Managed Service for Prometheus now works with Cloud Run
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GCP – Yoodli boosts confidence of job applicants, presenters, and minorities with automated video coaching platform powered by Google Cloud
The inspiration for Yoodli came from my experiences as an immigrant coming to the U.S. from India. Growing up, I had a bit of a lisp, which made me self-conscious about speaking up, especially when there were more confident people in the room who could talk non-stop in their native language. I was one of […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How new SEC rules can help business leaders
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives of the year, and the first of our two newsletters for January. Today I’ll be discussing some of the important changes to the Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure rules as outlined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the […]

GCP – El Carro drives change for Regnology — helps drop resource requirements by almost 40 percent
Editor’s Note: Regnologyis a global leader in financial and tax regulatory reporting software solutions, servicing regulators and regulated firms whose work involves massive amounts of data and calculations. Keeping pace with that data was a struggle because of their mixed technology stack. Further, their dependence on legacy databases was preventing them from fully realizing the […]

GCP – How Domino’s delivers pizza with the drop of a pin to almost anywhere
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GCP – How Wayfair is improving its feature engineering system with Vertex AI
Here at Wayfair, our data scientists rely on multiple sources of data to obtain features for model training. An ad hoc approach to feature engineering led to multiple versions of feature definitions, making it challenging to share features between different models. Most of the features were stored and used with minimal oversight on freshness, schema, […]

GCP – Figuring out microservices running on your GKE cluster with help from Duet AI
If you’ve joined a new team recently like I have, you’ve probably had a lot of questions. And answers to those questions may or may not be things you can find easily, and might rely heavily on the generosity, and spare time of your teammates. Let’s say you’re a DevRel engineer, working with Google Kubernetes […]

GCP – Announcing Workflows execution steps history
Introduction As you orchestrate more services with Workflows, the workflow gets more complicated with more steps, jumps, iterations, parallel branches. When the workflow execution inevitably fails at some point, you need to debug and figure out which step failed and why. So far, you only had an execution summary with inputs/outputs and logs to rely […]
GCP – Spanner: A differentiated database for non-relational workloads
Spanner is a fully managed database service for both relational and non-relational workloads that offers strong consistency at global scale, high performance at virtually unlimited scale, and high availability with an up to five 9s SLA. While Spanner is renowned for its relational capabilities, it is also a versatile key-value database that can be used […]