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GCP – Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL – A deep dive into VACUUM FAQs
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source database. Enterprises are increasingly migrating their workloads to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL from other engines for a number of reasons, including price, performance and to escape vendor lock-in. A critical aspect of PostgreSQL is its Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) implementation and the garbage collector which is called VACUUM. While […]

GCP – End-to-end monitoring for web and mobile applications with Sentry
You can identify and fix performance issues quickly by monitoring your applications “end-to-end” using Sentry performance monitoring and Google Cloud. We’ll explore how Sentry can help identify errors and crashes in your application, and how Google Cloud can help you identify performance issues by tracking metrics such as CPU and memory usage. You can also […]

GCP – Access private serverless services from an API platform using Private Service Connect
Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that lets you run containers directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure. You can consume Cloud Run applications from Apigee X, with minimal required resources. Apigee X is a platform for developing and managing APIs. By fronting services with a proxy layer, Apigee provides an abstraction or facade […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Fifth Refresh Release
This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Tenth Refresh Release
This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports Cross-Account Service Quotas
Amazon CloudWatch now supports Service Quotas in Cross-Account observability allowing customers to track and visualize resource utilization and limits across various AWS services from multiple AWS accounts within a region using a central monitoring account. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing DynamoDB local version 2.0
Today, Amazon DynamoDB local, a local downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB, has migrated to use the jakarta.* namespace. This latest version allows Java developers to use DynamoDB local to work with Spring Boot 3 and frameworks such as Spring Framework 6 and Micronaut Framework 4 to build modernized, simplified, and lightweight cloud native applications. Read […]

GCP – A connector to bring Earth Engine and BigQuery closer together for geospatial analytics
We’re excited to announce a new feature that simplifies exporting tabular data from Earth Engine into BigQuery. Earth Engine and BigQuery share the goal of making large-scale data processing accessible and usable by a wider range of people and applications; Earth Engine tends to focus on image (raster) processing, whereas BigQuery is optimized for processing […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Cards now integrated with model versions in Registry
Today, we are excited to announce the integration of Amazon SageMaker Model Cards and Amazon SageMaker Model Registry, allowing you to associate a SageMaker Model Card with a specific model version in SageMaker Model Registry. This enables you to establish a single source of truth for your registered model versions, with comprehensive, centralized, and standardized […]