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GCP – Spotify keeps engineers and code in tune with fleet management
Since 2016, Spotify and Google Cloud have collaborated on solutions for Spotify’s developers, Google Cloud users, and open source communities. One of the most intensive and productive partnerships for both companies has been the work Google Cloud and Spotify have done to develop and optimize Google Cloud technologies in a way that also helps Spotify […]
GCP – New Vertex AI Feature Store built with BigQuery, ready for predictive and generative AI
Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s machine learning (ML) platform for training and deploying ML models and AI applications — a one-stop destination for data engineering, data science, and ML engineering workflows. The new Vertex AI Feature Store supports these workflows and is inpublic preview. Feature Store is now fully powered by your organization’s existing BigQuery […]
GCP – How to enrich product data with generative AI using Vertex AI
Product Information Management (PIM) is a critical process in the retail industry to manage product data, such as descriptions, images, and other attributes. In this blog post, we will show how to use Large Language Models (LLMs) with Vertex AI to enrich product data, which can improve the customer experience and the bottom line. Product […]
GCP – HLTH ’23: Google Cloud and healthcare leaders share how generative AI is transforming the industry
In healthcare, AI is the most exciting technology we are working on today. From assisting clinicians with documentation, to streamlining operations, to accelerating medical research, to helping doctors detect diseases earlier, this remarkable technology holds the potential to reshape our world and promote healthier, more fulfilling lives. For the healthcare industry, the most promising near-term […]
Azure – Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don’t conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end. Read More for the details.
Azure – Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired. Read More for the details.
Azure – Support for Azure Machine Learning Explanation and Fairness Dashboards is ending on 14 March 2025
The Explanation and Fairness Dashboard will be retired on 14 March 2025, please transition to the Responsible AI Dashboard (generally available) by that date. The Responsible AI dashboard will have feature parity and new additional features. You can still create and view the Explanation and Fairness dashboards with our open-source offerings (InterpretML and Fairlearn respectively), which are free […]
Azure – Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 30 September 2024
Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 30 September 2024. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024
On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client. Read More for the details.