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Azure – Generally available: Functions now supports .NET 7 in an isolated worker process
Create applications with .NET 7 runtime to take advantage of serverless functions in Azure. Read More for the details.

GCP – Accelerating digital transformation with industry solutions – Podcast
Most large enterprises started with their own data centers and developed in-house solutions to meet their specific business needs, regulations, and industry specifications. These solutions were based on traditional applications from legacy vendors like Oracle and Microsoft — or even mainframes — and from key technology providers like SAP and VMware. During the last decade, […]

GCP – Document AI: A unified AI agent for your document processing needs
As I type this blog in a Google Doc, I can’t help but think about how much we rely on digital documents to communicate, collaborate, and do business. Yet most of the data in documents remains un-analyzed. Even when documents are part of customer-facing workflows like processing a mortgage application or a contract, businesses frequently […]

GCP – Samsung upskills their Big Data Center teams to transform business
Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of smartphones, TV’s, home appliances and electronic devices, recently launched their Big Data Center (BDC) to improve the use of big data in development, marketing, and product sales. Samsung also focused on maximizing the value of their existing data by creating a data hub platform to harness […]

GCP – Upskill for in-demand cloud roles with no-cost training on Coursera
Cloud technology has experienced accelerated adoption in recent years, with continued growth expected into 2023.1 This means that the need for organizations to attract and retain professionals with cloud skills continues to grow in parallel.2 Keep your cloud career growing, at pace with digital transformation In partnership with Google Cloud, Coursera is offeringno-cost access to […]

GCP – Traffic Director: TLS routing using Envoy gateway proxy on GKE
A common pattern for solving application networking challenges is to use a service mesh. Users familiar with such architectures face challenges related to network flow, security, and observability. Traffic Director is a managed Google service that helps solve these problems. In this blog, we are going to share a sample architecture, using Traffic Director to […]

GCP – Announcing MongoDB connector for Apigee Integration
MongoDB is a developer friendly application data platform that makes it easy for developers to access a wide variety of data using a unified language interface, simplifying the data handling process. MongoDB Atlas , MongoDB’s fully managed cloud database, enhances MongoDB’s capabilities even further with full-text search and real-time analytics, as well as event-driven and […]

Azure – General availability: Virtual Machine software reservations
You can now save on Virtual Machine software from third-party publishers by purchasing software reservations. Read More for the details.

GCP – Intro to deep learning to track deforestation in supply chains
Introduction In my experience, I have observed that it’s common in machine learning to surrender to the process of experimenting with many different algorithms in a trial and error fashion, until you get the desired result. My peers and I at Google have a 🌍People and Planet AI YouTube series where we talk about how […]
AWS – AWS Private 5G service now includes support for multiple radio-units
AWS Private 5G is a managed service that makes it easier to deploy, operate, and scale your own private mobile network, with all required hardware and software provided by AWS. To set up a private mobile network and connect devices, AWS delivers and maintains the following required components: small-cell radio unit, subscriber identity modules (SIM […]