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GCP – Create ecommerce experiences with commercetools and Google Cloud Application Integration
The world of digital commerce is rapidly evolving. To stay competitive, businesses need the ability to integrate their commerce systems with a wide array of applications and services. Furthermore, customers expect targeted and personalized experiences. Google’s AI and data solutions create an opportunity to deliver a personalized experience for customers within your ecommerce solutions. This […]

GCP – Understand the change in Cloud Monitoring service discovery and how to adapt
If you’ve opened the SLOs Overview in the Google Cloud console recently, you may have seen this notice: This notice announces a recent change in the way of defining services for Cloud Monitoring. Before the change, Cloud Monitoring automatically discovered services that were provisioned in AppEngine, Cloud Run or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). These services […]

GCP – Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
A Google Cloud incident earlier this month impacted our customer, UniSuper, in Australia. While our first priority was to work with our customer to get them fully operational, soon after the incident started, we publicly acknowledged the incident in a joint statement with the customer. With our customer’s systems fully up and running, we have […]

AWS – Introducing the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Apache Spark Structured Streaming Connector for Amazon EMR
We are excited to announce the launch of the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Connector for Spark Structured Streaming on Amazon EMR. The new connector makes it easy for you to build real-time streaming applications and pipelines that consume Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Apache Spark Structured Streaming. Starting Amazon EMR 7.1, the connector comes pre-packaged […]

GCP – How the Nerds at Nerdery do great work with ChromeOS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Jim Buck, Vice President of Technology Enablement, and Samuel Kidder, IT Systems Engineer, both of Nerdery. The Edina, Minnesota company is a digital product and data platform company with 20 years of experience, bringing expertise across design, engineering, and analytics to harness the full potential of your data, craft […]

Azure – Public Preview: Set Java log levels in Azure Container Apps
Java application log levels can now be set dynamically in Azure Container Apps. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps
You can now now have easy access to fast, ephemeral, sandboxed compute on Azure without managing infrastructure. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview of the App Configuration Extension for AKS
Azure App Configuration extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to install and manage Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider on your AKS cluster via Azure Resource Manager (ARM). Read More for the details.

AWS – New open-source AWS Advanced Python Wrapper driver now available for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Python Wrapper driver is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible edition database clusters. This database driver provides support for faster switchover and failover times, and authentication with AWS Secrets Manager or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The AWS Advanced Python […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with a new parameter for DeleteStack API
AWS CloudFormation launches a new parameter called DeletionMode for the DeleteStack API. This new parameter allows customers to safely delete their CloudFormation stacks that are in DELETE_FAILED state. Today, customers create, update, delete, and re-create CloudFormation stacks when iterating on their cloud infrastructure in their dev-test environments. Customers can use the DeleteStack CloudFormation API to […]