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GCP – How Vodafone Hungary migrated their data platform to Google Cloud
Vodafone is currently the second largest telecommunication company in Hungary, and recently acquired UPC Hungary to extend its previous mobile services with fix portfolio. Following the acquisition, Vodafone Hungary serves approximately 3.8 million residential and business subscribers. This story is about how Vodafone Hungary benefited from moving its data and analytics platform to Google Cloud. […]
GCP – How Google Maps Platform uses AI/ML and community contributions to keep its points of interest up to date
Global businesses across industries consistently trust us when they build geospatial products and solutions for their own customers. One of the key reasons businesses choose Google Maps Platform is the freshness of its points of interest (POI) data. For example, using Google Maps Platform, a travel site can help its customers discover open restaurants near […]
GCP – Announcing the General Availability of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
In May 2022 at Google I/O, we announced the preview of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that provides a powerful option for modernizing your most demanding enterprise database workloads. We’re happy to announce that AlloyDB is now generally available. AlloyDB is an excellent choice for organizations looking to break free from their […]
GCP – Modernize your database with the expanded AlloyDB partner ecosystem
If you’re looking to free yourself from legacy databases and their overpriced, restrictive licensing, you’ve probably looked at cloud-based alternatives. Google Cloud’s database portfolio includes AlloyDB for PostgreSQL as a key modernization option. AlloyDB is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service for the most demanding enterprise database workloads, combining the best of Google with one of […]
GCP – Minimal Downtime Migrations to Cloud Spanner with HarbourBridge 2.0
Spanner is a fully managed, strongly consistent and highly available database providing up to 99.999% availability. It is also very easy to create your Spanner instance and point your application to it. But what if you want to migrate your schema and data from another database to Cloud Spanner? The common challenges with database migrations […]
AWS – Monitor Amazon EMR Serverless jobs in near real-time using CloudWatch metrics
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 14
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL-compatibilie edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL running major version 14. PostgreSQL 14 concists of performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon EBS direct APIs now support the IPv6 protocol, so that applications to connect through EBS direct APIs over IPv6. EBS direct APIs enable customers to simplify their backup and recovery workflows by directly creating and reading EBS snapshots via APIs. With this change, customers can meet their IPv6 compliance needs, integrate with existing IPv6-based […]
AWS – Advanced Notice: Amazon S3 will automatically enable S3 Block Public Access and disable access control lists for all new buckets starting in April 2023
Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will introduce two new default bucket security settings by automatically enabling S3 Block Public Access and disabling S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets. Once complete, these defaults will apply to all new buckets regardless of how they are created, including AWS CLI, APIs, SDKs, and […]
GCP – Running database migrations with Cloud Run Jobs
Back when Cloud Run was still in its public preview stage in 2019, I wrote about a dozen reasons why Cloud Run complies with the Twelve-Factor App methodology. That article described how Cloud Run covered most of the twelve factors of application development. However the twelfth factor — Admin Processes — was noted as “outside […]