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Azure – Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box
Self-service, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for developers’ projects and tasks. Read More for the details.
GCP – Best practices of migrating Hive ACID Tables to BigQuery
Are you looking to migrate a large amount of Hive ACID tables to BigQuery? ACID enabled Hive tables support transactions that accept updates and delete DML operations. In this blog, we will explore migrating Hive ACID tables to BigQuery. The approach explored in this blog works for both compacted (major / minor) and non-compacted Hive […]
GCP – How autonomic data security can help define cloud’s future
“Ninety percent of all data today was created in the last two years—that’s 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day,” according to business data analytics company Domo. That would be a mind-bending statistic, except that it’s already five years old. As data usage has undergone drastic expansion and changes in the past five years, so […]
GCP – Controlling your BigQuery costs
Are you worried about controlling your BigQuery costs across multiple projects? In this blog, you will learn about the different guardrails BigQuery provides to limit costs, and monitor BigQuery consumption. Also, learn how to design the warehouse that scales seamlessly while keeping costs under your control. 1. Set up user-level quota and project-level quota can […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize allows rule-based promotions in recommendations
Amazon Personalize now allows you to promote specific items in all users’ recommendations based on rules that align with your business goals. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Personalize currently recommends relevant items for each user or similar items to a given item […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize launches support for range queries on dynamic filters
Amazon Personalize now supports comparison operators ( =, <, <=, >, >=) for dynamic filters to provide flexibility in applying your business rules to recommendations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Dynamic filters currently allow you to change filter criteria at the time of […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Scale Compute
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports Scale Compute operation. With this, you can now scale your Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle instance up or down. Read More for the details.
AWS – The Amazon Chime SDK announces elastic channels
The Amazon Chime SDK enables developers to add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, Amazon Chime SDK messaging supports large-scale chat experiences for up to one million users with elastic channels. Use cases include watch parties for sporting events, political events, or live entertainment with create […]
AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g, M6gd, C6g, and R6g are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, M6gd, C6g, and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. AWS Graviton2-based instances provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable x86-based instances. M6g and M6gd instances are ideal for general purpose workloads such as application servers, microservices, mid-size data stores, and […]
GCP – Securing apps for Googlers using Anthos Service Mesh
Hi there! I’m David Challoner from Access Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), here with Anthony Bushong from Developer Relations to talk about how Corp Eng is adopting Anthos Service Mesh internally at Google. Corp Eng is Google’s take on “Enterprise IT”. A big part of the Corp Eng mission is running the first and third party […]