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GCP – What’s the future of DevOps? You tell us. Take the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps survey
For the past eight years, Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has published the Accelerate State of DevOps Report. With input from over 33,000 professionals worldwide, the annual report provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance […]
GCP – Subskribe brings full insights to its quote-to-revenue platform with embedded Looker
Subskribe helps SaaS companies keep up with modern demands by delivering a unified system for configure, price, quote (CPQ), billing, and revenue recognition. Now that it’s added comprehensive business intelligence (BI) and real-time data-exploration capabilities to its platform using Looker Embedded, Subskribe can also help SaaS providers improve decision making and drive growth with on-demand […]
GCP – Forecasting “relevant inventory” at “relevant nodes” for retailers’ success
During quarterly earnings calls, retail CxOs often talk about the impact to margins of extra shipping costs, increases in split shipments and monitoring inventory levels. Across the U.S. apparel sector, for example, earnings before interest and taxes dropped by over 30% due to accelerated demand of online business. Today’s retailers are focused on improving profit […]
GCP – Get more insights out of your Google Search data with BigQuery
Many digital marketers and analysts use BigQuery to bring marketing data sources together, like Google Analytics and Google Ads, to uncover insights about their marketing campaigns and websites. We’re excited to dive deeper into a new type of connection that adds Google Search data into this mix. Earlier this year, Search Console announced bulk data […]
GCP – The search experience within the Google Cloud console just got a bit easier
The Google Cloud console is a powerful platform that lets users manage their cloud projects end-to-end with an intuitive web-based UI. With over 120 Google Cloud products across thousands of pages, it can be challenging to navigate through the console quickly, and many users don’t like to use the command line interface. To help, Google […]
GCP – How to integrate a Virtual Agent using Google Dialogflow ES into a Twilio Conversation
Twilio Flex is an omni-channel CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) that makes it easy to build personalized support that’s unique to your business. In this post, we will show you how to integrate Flex’s asynchronous channels with Google DialogFlow. Flex uses Twilio Conversations to natively support conversational messaging use cases such as customer support […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region. You can now use Security Hub to centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in this Region and take advantage of more than 110 security controls to automatically check your environment against security industry standards and best practices. […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Glue 4.0 for AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
We’re pleased to announce the launch of AWS Glue 4.0 for the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Glue 4.0 is a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 4.0 upgrades the Spark engines to Apache Spark 3.3.0 and Python 3.10. Glue 4.0 gives customers the latest Spark and […]
AWS – Amazon Athena updates data source connectors to improve performance and reduce cost
Amazon Athena has updated its data source connectors with new optimizations that can improve performance and reduce cost when querying data that does not reside in Amazon S3. Available today, the updated connectors use dynamic filtering and new predicate push down optimizations to perform more operations in the underlying data source, rather than in Athena, which […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering now supports auto scaling
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering on Graviton2-based R6gd nodes now supports auto scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady and predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis data tiering uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to […]