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GCP – CCAI Platform goes GA: Faster time to value with AI for your Contact Center
Customers reach out to contact centers for help in moments of urgent need, but due to increasing demands, new channels, peak times, and operational pressures, contact centers often struggle to provide timely help. To bridge this gap, enterprises are increasingly investing in AI-driven solutions that balance addressing customer expectations with operational efficiency. But building and […]

GCP – How one startup simplifies passwordless authentication across devices with Google Cloud
Most people find it difficult to remember all the passwords they need for work, home, and school. Although device-native biometrics offer a smoother login experience and stronger security, fingerprint and facial recognition are only supported by a few mobile applications. That’s why we built a solution to provide complete passwordless user authentication in just a […]

GCP – Cloud Monitoring further embraces open source by adding PromQL
As Kubernetes monitoring continues to standardize on Prometheus as a form factor, more and more developers are becoming familiar with Prometheus’ built-in query language, PromQL. Besides being bundled with Prometheus, PromQL is popular for being a simple yet expressive language for querying time series data. It’s been fully adopted by the community, with lots of […]

Azure – Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow events will be retired on 30 September 2025
We are retiring the Azure Monitor ITSM connector feature for creating ServiceNow alerts on 30 September 2025. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Batch TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 March 2023
Retirement notice: Transition to Azure Batch TLS 1.2 by 31 March 2023. Read More for the details.

Azure – Support for Azure API Management self-hosted gateway version 0 and version 1 ends 1 October 2023
After 1 October 2023, version 0 and version 1 self-hosted gateway will not be supported. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API will be retired on 30 April 2023
Retirement Notice: Stop using Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API by 30 April 2023. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Static Web Apps support for Node 12 ends on 3 December 2022
Post 3 December 2022, Azure Static Web Apps will end support for Node 12. Read More for the details.

Azure – DevOps Starter is being retired. Use Azure Developer CLI for quick-start deployments to Azure
DevOps Starter is being retired. Use Azure Developer CLI for quick-start deployments to Azure. Monitor existing CI/CD pipelines from their native experiences in Azure DevOps or GitHub. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure CycleCloud 7 will be retired on 30 September 2023
Retirement notice: Transition to CycleCloud 8 by 30 September 2023. Read More for the details.