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GCP – The search bar got a workout on Black Friday 2022
Editor’s note: To kick off the new year and in preparation for NRF The Big Show, we invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that continues to see tremendous change. Lucidworks had previously published “4 lessons […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure App Health Extension – Rich Health States
Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications. Read More for the details.
GCP – Run data science workloads without creating more data silos
For organizations, it is important to build a data lake solution that offers flexible governance and the ability to break data silos while maintaining a simple and manageable data infrastructure that does not require multiple copies of the same data. This is particularly true for organizations trying to empower multiple data science teams to run […]
GCP – Reliability and SRE in the 2022 State of DevOps Report
When a software change is deployed — after being designed, coded, tested, packaged, and tested some more — a journey comes to an end. At the same time, a new journey begins: your customer’s relationship with your service. It’s here, in the domain of operations, that abstract risks like launch schedule slippage give way to […]
GCP – DORA’s implementation period starts now. What we’re doing to prepare for the new law
Today is the start of the two year implementation period for the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). Financial entities in the European Union (EU) and their critical ICT providers must be ready to comply with DORA by January 17, 2025. At Google Cloud, we firmly believe that DORA will be vital to accelerating digital […]
GCP – Managing Dialogflow CX Agents with Terraform
Dialogflow CX is a powerful tool in Google Cloud that you can use to design conversational agents powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to transform user requests into actionable data. You can integrate voice and/or chat agents in your app, website, or customer support systems to determine user intent and interact with users. If you’ve ever […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports the request header order and header count headers
Amazon CloudFront now supports the “Cloudfront-viewer-header-order” and “Cloudfront-viewer-header-count” headers, enabling customers to track the total number of HTTP headers sent with each request, as well as the order in which the headers were sent. Customers can use the two headers to detect and identify request patterns and compare them to the expected and legitimate patterns. […]
GCP – Built with BigQuery: Solving scale and complexity in retail pricing with BigQuery, Looker, Analytics Hub and more
Context and Background Maintaining optimal pricing in the retail industry can be challenging when relying on manual processes or platforms that are not equipped to handle the complexity and scale of the task. The ability to quickly adapt to factors affecting pricing has also become a critical success factor for retailers when pricing their products. […]
AWS – AWS Nitro Enclaves announces support for multiple enclaves
AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports the ability to create more than one enclave per EC2 instance. AWS Nitro Enclaves is an Amazon EC2 capability that enables customers to create isolated compute environments to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports new SSL/TLS certificates and certificate controls
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) has new certificate authorities with 40 year and 100 year validity. SSL/TLS certificates enable secure communication between your clients and databases. Read More for the details.