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GCP – Cloud Spanner powers Kochava’s mobile analytics platform
Kochava is a real-time data company offering leading omni-channel measurement and attribution solutions for data-driven marketers and publishers. Via the Marketers Operating System™ (m/OS), Kochava delivers actionable data, providing marketers with a platform that seamlessly integrates and manages customer identity, measurement and data controls. With a unified view of all data and critical omni-channel solutions […]

GCP – Using ML to predict the weather and climate risk
Introduction All beings on this planet are affected by atmospheric phenomena we call the weather. Because of this, humans have invented all sorts of measuring tools, and luckily have loads of data from observations. All this data has been on quite a technological journey; from being collected on paper and local servers in basements, to now […]

GCP – Introducing regional placement in Dataflow
We’re excited to announce that Dataflow now supports regional placement of workers. Building upon Auto Zone placement Dataflow deploys its workers as Compute Engine resources, which are hosted in multiple locations worldwide. Since 2018, Dataflow has supported the Auto Zone feature, which uses the available zone capacity to automatically select the best single zone within […]

GCP – Adopting SRE: Standardizing your SLO design process
Poll three Site Reliability Engineers with the question “What is SRE?” and you’re likely to get five different answers: an implementation of DevOps, a role, a set of practices, a cultural shift, a snazzy title. While these definitions may not necessarily align with those in the SRE books, there is one throughline differentiating SRE from […]

AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.10.17
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.17, which includes several important fixes and performance optimizations to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.10.10. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight enhances the developer experience with SDK 2.0
QuickSight Embedding SDK is a Javascript library that allows developers to integrate analytics functionality into their products and applications. The SDK version 2.0 supports TypeScript, ES6 (async/await) syntax, and utility features that enable developers to quickly build analytics experiences within their applications. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms
We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms, authored by Bern Elliot and Gabriele Rigon. We believe this recognition is a testament to Google Cloud’s robust investments and commitment to innovation in AI, coupled with a deep understanding of enterprise […]

Azure – GA: Spot Priority Mix
Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode. Read More for the details.

Azure – Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing lower data warehouse base capacity configuration for Amazon Redshift Serverless
Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPU). Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPU and you pay only for the duration of workloads you run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously the minimum […]