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GCP – Introducing the Google SRE Prodcast
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Google SRE Prodcast, an interview-style podcast where Site Reliability Engineers at Google discuss key SRE concepts and share their experiences, advice, and strong opinions along the way. Since early 2016, SREs at Google have been producing and listening to an internal version of the Prodcast. This year, […]

GCP – BigQuery Omni innovations enhance customer experience to combine data with cross cloud analytics
IT leaders pick different clouds for many reasons, but the rest of the company shouldn’t be left to navigate the complexity of those decisions. For data analysts, that complexity is most immediately felt when navigating between data silos. Google Cloud has invested deeply in helping customers break down these barriers inherent in a disparate data […]

GCP – Moloco handles 5 million+ ad requests per second with Cloud Bigtable
Editor’s note: Here we explore how the machine learning firm, Moloco, uses Google Cloud database services and AI platform to help mobile app advertisers create targeted ad campaigns using ML-based predictions and win ad placement bids all in under 100 milliseconds. Moloco is a machine learning company that currently works with customers who need solutions […]

GCP – Google Cloud launches Optimization AI: Cloud Fleet Routing API to help customers make route planning easier
Increased customer demands, climate concerns, and higher delivery expectations from the consumer market are just a few of the emerging macro trends that retail, logistics, and consumer packaged goods industries face. To stay competitive in this environment, businesses need to improve execution, both to serve customers and to address the onslaught of logistical and environmental […]

GCP – A policy roadmap for 24/7 carbon-free energy
In 2020, Google set its most ambitious sustainability goal to date: By 2030, we aim to operate entirely on carbon-free energy (CFE) — around the clock — at our data centers and offices worldwide. This means matching each hour of our electricity consumption with carbon-free electricity sources on every grid where we operate. Securing round-the-clock […]

GCP – Follow the pink pony: A story of CSRF, managed services, and unicorns
With the release of Django 4.0, there was a minor change to how Django handles CSRF protections: the Origin header is now checked, if present. Specifically, the URL scheme is now checked. Now, this seems like an innocuous change, something that shouldn’t affect many users. However, this change would break Django 4.0 deployments to Cloud […]

AWS – Announcing the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript 3.0 and React Components 3.0
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. The Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript 3.0 and React Components 3.0 provides developers of web and Electron applications with a simplified developer experience for faster implementation and consistency across popular browsers and Chromium runtimes. Read More […]

Azure – Public preview: Metrics and alerts support in Azure Container Apps
You can now view metrics for your Azure Container Apps and setup alerts for metric thresholds and Log Analytic queries. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP introduces a single Availability Zone deployment option
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports Single Availability Zone (AZ) deployments. Single-AZ file systems are designed for use cases that do not require the data resiliency model of a Multi-AZ file system, such as running development and test workloads, or storing secondary copies of data that is already stored on premises or in other […]
AWS – AWS Fargate now delivers faster scaling of applications
AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), now enables customers to scale applications faster, improving performance and reducing wait time. We have made several improvements over the last year that enable you to scale applications up to 16X faster, making it easier to build […]