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GCP – Tencent: Building analytics culture for better game development
Tencent is a leading internet and technology company headquartered in Shenzhen, China. Our mission is “value for users, tech for good.” We are also the company behind world-famous games like Level Infinite, PubG Mobile, Honor of Kings, GTFO, and Assassin’s Creed Jade. In February 2020, we acquired Funcom, a gaming company that recently celebrated its […]
GCP – How Airwallex leveraged Google Cloud to scale globally
On a mission to disrupt and transform the fintech industry, Airwallex is constantly innovating, embracing new technologies that can help businesses overcome international money transfer challenges so they can grow without borders. We aim to provide end-to-end solutions and currently offer services related to global payments, treasury and expense management, and embedded finance services. With […]
Azure – Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports pgvector 0.7.0
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports pgvector 0.7.0, an open-source extension for PostgreSQL for storing vector embeddings in your database, letting you use retrieval-augemented generation (RAG) when building your generative AI applications. This release of pgvector includes features that increase the number dimensions of vectors you can index, reduce index size, and […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon EKS access management controls
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics now integrates with the Amazon EKS access management controls. Starting today, the collector utilizes the EKS access management controls to create a managed access policy that allows the collector to discover and collect Prometheus metrics. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector with […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support G6 instance types
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances on SageMaker notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6 instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6 instances offer 2x better performance for deep learning inference compared to […]
GCP – LLMs, AI Studio, Higher Quality, Oh my! Our latest Translation AI advancements
When it comes to AI use cases, language translation is amongst the most practical and widely adopted by companies and organizations alike. From Canva to Bloomberg, companies have pursued the flywheel of automatic multi-lingual translation, seeking to make content more accessible to employees, customers, communities, and the public. Since introducing the transformer architecture in 2017, […]
GCP – The surprising economics of Horizontal Pod Autoscaling tuning
The Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) is a fundamental tool for managing the scalability and efficiency of your environment, working by deploying more Pods in response to increased load. However, achieving the best price-performance with HPA requires a nuanced understanding of its settings, particularly your CPU utilization targets. The common assumption that a 50% CPU […]
GCP – How chaos testing adds extra reliability to Spanner’s fault-tolerant design
One of the secrets behind Spanner’s reliability is the team’s extensive use of chaos testing, the process of deliberately injecting faults into production-like instances of the database. Although engineers focus on testing the “happy path,” most software bugs occur when things go wrong. Given Spanner’s complex architecture and constantly evolving codebase, it is inevitable that […]
GCP – Building a Cloud Data Fusion pipeline to upload audit records generated by Cloud SQL for SQL Server to BigQuery
Introduction Cloud SQL for SQL Server offers configurable auditing, capturing events like login attempts, DDLs, and DMLs. These events are stored locally on the instance for up to 7 days and can be preserved longer in GCS buckets. Some customers want to access and analyze their Cloud SQL for SQL Server audit data in other […]