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GCP – Implementing observability for always-on Ecommerce experience
In today’s Digital age, the emphasis continues to be on automation and improving business processes, employee productivity and customer experiences to meet the ever changing business and consumer expectations. According to Gartner, organizations will require more IT and business process automation as they are forced to accelerate digital transformation plans in a post pandemic, digital-first […]

GCP – Why I love Go
I’ve been building software over the last four decades, as a developer, manager and executive in both small and large software companies. I started my career working on commercial compilers, first BASIC and then C. I have written a lot of code in many different languages, and managed teams with even broader language usage. I […]

GCP – How Google scales ad personalization with Bigtable
Cloud Bigtable is a popular and widely used key-value database available on Google Cloud. The service provides scale elasticity, cost efficiency, excellent performance characteristics, and 99.999% availability SLA. This has led to massive adoption with thousands of customers trusting Bigtable to run a variety of their mission-critical workloads. Bigtable has been in continuous production usage […]

GCP – Long-term data protection with Persistent Disk Archive Snapshots
Many enterprises need data backups with long-term retention – for months or years – to help support requirements for compliance, audit, or disaster recovery. For example, a workload that generates receipt data might need to keep snapshots of this data for several years, even if the data might never be retrieved or retrieved only rarely. […]

GCP – Google + Mandiant: Transforming Security Operations and Incident Response
Over the past two decades, Google has innovated to build some of the largest and most secure computing systems in the world. This scale requires us to deliver pioneering approaches to cloud security, which we pass on to our Google Cloud customers. We are committed to solving hard security problems like only Google can, as […]

GCP – Thank you Partners for three years of growth and winning together
Congratulations to our fast growing ecosystem of global partners for three years of commitment to Partner Advantage, underscored by great collaboration, high energy, innovative ideas, and transformative impact. Together we’ve leveraged our program to drive growth and customer satisfaction. Year to date, there has been more than a 140% year-over-year increase in experts at our […]

AWS – Announcing the composite slot type for Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and IVR systems. Today, Amazon Lex introduces the composite slot type. A slot is used to capture user input and provide the bot […]

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager adds support for AWS WAF custom requests and responses
AWS Firewall Manager now enables you to configure AWS WAF to add custom web requests and responses. Read More for the details.

AWS – Applications using Amazon SNS to send SMS can now be hosted in four new regions
Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.30
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.30. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and, to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Read More for the […]