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GCP – 12 days of no-cost training to learn generative AI this December
The holiday season is upon us and 2024 is just around the corner. Generative AI has been a hot topic of conversation this year, so throughout December join us for 12 days of no-cost generative AI training to build your skills and knowledge. Give yourself the gift of learning. Check out our featured gen AI […]

GCP – Data-driven decisions with YugabyteDB and BigQuery
YugabyteDB, a distributed SQL database, when combined with BigQuery, tackles data fragmentation, data integration, and scalability issues businesses face. It ensures that data is well-organized and not scattered across different places, making it easier to use in BigQuery for analytics. YugabyteDB’s ability to grow with the amount of data helps companies handle more information without […]

GCP – How DORA DevOps best practices helped Circles launch a telco-as-a-service in under two months
Circles is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Singapore and is transforming the telecommunications industry. Launched in 2014, Circles now operates across 14 markets and serves millions of customers globally. Through our digital expertise gained from operating our own digital lifestyle telco brand, Circles.Life, we identified building the world’s first cloud-native telco-as-a-service platform as […]


GCP – What’s new with Filestore: Enhancing your stateful workloads on GKE
Many customers use Filestore for stateful applications running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). For background on the benefits of using the two together, please see this blog. Filestore, Google Cloud’s fully managed file storage service, is a multi-reader, multi-writer solution that is decoupled from compute VMs, making it resilient to VM changes/failures. Filestore’s Enterprise and […]

GCP – Deploy and manage Kubernetes applications with Workflows
Workflows is a versatile service in orchestrating and automating a wide range of use cases: microservices, business processes, Data and ML pipelines, IT operations, and more. It can also be used to automate deployment of containerized applications on Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and this got even easier with the newly released (in preview) Kubernetes API Connector. […]

GCP – Introducing sample GenAI Databases Retrieval App – augment your LLMs with Google Cloud databases
Today we are announcing the open-source GenAI Databases Retrieval App, now available on GitHub. This project is a sample application that demonstrates production-quality practices for using techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and ReACT to extend your gen AI application with information from Google Cloud databases. Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly powerful and […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: LiveRamp’s open approach to optimizing customer experiences
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. Data collaboration, the act of gathering and connecting data from various sources to unlock combined data insights, is the key to reaching, understanding, and expanding your audience. And enabling global businesses to accurately connect, unify, […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How security validations can help organizations stay secure
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2023. This month, Mandiant Consulting’s Earl Matthews discusses Security Validation, a vital tool that can give CISOs better information for making security decisions, and can help organizations understand their true security posture and risk profile. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter […]
GCP – Developer Friendly Networking that keeps up with your development velocity
Shared VPCs adhere to the principle of least privilege, where only the centralized network and security teams have permissions to create and manage the networking infrastructure in the host project. Developers, on the other hand, only have permissions to deploy compute, storage, and other resources in the service projects. This approach works well in scenarios […]