Bulletin for Friday, 28 Jan 2022
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allegro.tech (1)
Computer Things (1)
Earthly Blog (1)
High Scalability (1)
Joel on Software (1)
Julia Evans (1)
Kevin Sookocheff (1)
Notes on software, organizations, product development, and professional growth (1)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (1)
The CircleCI Blog Feed - CircleCI (1)
Weaveworks (1)
- Scary Fraud Ensues When ID Theft & Usury Collide
- Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops
The Evolution of Cybernetics (2)
Future (3)
- M&A, Before and After: What Founders Need to Know
- Anatomy of a Biotech Business Development Deal
- Hardcore Software: When Microsoft Office Went Enterprise
- How Prime Video updates its app for more than 8,000 device types
- How to build a successful career as a scientist at Amazon
- On-device speech processing makes Alexa faster, lower-bandwidth
- How Alexa learned Arabic
Blog – Hackaday (4)
- Recreating MS Paint For The ESP32
- Reject Modernity; Return To Tamagotchi
- Remoticon 2021 // Voja Antonic Makes You a Digital Designer
- Robotic Xylophone Makes Music with MIDI Magic
- Migrations without migraines (Go Time #214)
- Building fully declarative systems with Nix (Ship It! #37)
- The world needs an AI superhero (Practical AI #165)
- Supabase is all in on Postgres (The Changelog #476)
- What Cloudflare is up to (JS Party #209)
Google AI Blog (5)
- Does Your Medical Image Classifier Know What It Doesn’t Know?
- Resolving High-Energy Impacts on Quantum Processors
- Accurate Alpha Matting for Portrait Mode Selfies on Pixel 6
- Separating Birdsong in the Wild for Classification
- LaMDA: Towards Safe, Grounded, and High-Quality Dialog Models for Everything
Towards Data Science - Medium (5)
- Camera Calibration with Example in Python
- Understanding OPTICS and Implementation with Python
- Using Deep Learning to Predict Hip-Hop Popularity on Spotify
- Creating Sentinel 2 (Truly) Cloudless Mosaics with Microsoft Planetary Computer
- Reading .h5 files faster with PyTorch Datasets
- Psychological safety is critical for high-performing teams
- Keeping technologists in the flow state
- How to defend your attention and find a flow state
- Securing the data in your online code repository is a shared responsibility
- The Overflow #109: Developers and the Great Resignation
- Who’s going to pay to fix open source security?
- Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing
- Protecting Holocaust educational websites
- Incorrect proxying of 24 hostnames on January 24, 2022
- Landscape of API Traffic
- Burkina Faso experiencing second major Internet disruption this year
- Internet outage in Yemen amid airstrikes
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (6)
- IPv6 Buzz 093: Dissecting DHCPv6
- Tech Bytes: Singtel And The Cloud-Ready Network (Sponsored)
- Day Two Cloud 131: Monitoring The Cloud From The Cloud
- Tech Bytes: Managing SaaS Risks With Smarter, Cloud-Delivered Security (Sponsored)
- Network Break 366: Microsoft Spends $68.7 Billion On Games; Wi-Fi 7 On The Horizon
- Heavy Networking 614: eBPF, Cloud-Native Networking, And Other Modern Networking Trends
Cloud Blog (20)
- Consensual Embedded Finance is safer and more fun
- Expanding support for early-stage startups on Google Cloud
- Google Tau VMs deliver over 40% price-performance advantage to customers
- Bigtable Autoscaling: Deep dive and cost saving analysis
- Cloud Bigtable launches Autoscaling plus new features for optimizing costs and improved manageability
- Google Cloud launches new dedicated Digital Assets Team
- What’s new with Google Cloud
- Announcing Quick Builder, a new low-code tool for you to build location-based experiences
- Google Cloud now the most favored platform for research globally, according to Ipsos
- Optimize your applications using Google Vertex AI Vizier
- Google Cloud VMware Engine enables Synack’s trusted security platform
- The technology and climate science helping CPG brands with sustainable sourcing
- Sabre chose Bigtable and Cloud Spanner to serve more than 1 billion travelers annually
- Open sourcing the App Engine Standard Java runtime
- From “hidden secret” to open secret: The year ahead for AppSheet
- Is a cloud migration on your to do list? Our top stories from 2021 can help
- Google Cloud Deploy, now GA, makes it easier to do continuous delivery to GKE
- Applications are now open for the second Google Cloud Accelerator Canada Cohort
- Test Cases in Dialogflow CX
- Deploying and operating cloud-based 5G networks
Integrity isn't guaranteed if you autoexpire multiple Redis keys within a script. To solve this, we switched from relative to absolute expiry times. (BACK TO TOP)
Most of applications we create are basically loops. An average program waits for an event, then processes it following some business logic. Afterwards it begins waiting for another event to arrive. Java Servlets work this way too. Popular frameworks such as Spring allow us to only care about the business logic, while the framework takes care of the application main loop. The problem with blocking operations Imagine a very simple web application whose task is to calculate currency exchange rates. (BACK TO TOP)
And we’re back! As noted in part 1 and part 2 I thought it might be possible that I had discovered something interesting in biology. Lacking an academic peer group, I had decided to use a series of blog posts to gather feedback and to keep myself honest. (BACK TO TOP)
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Hiya everyone! Workshop is all done and I’m alive again. For those of you just joining us, I teach formal methods workshops to companies . Working on a piece about my pedagogy now, actually; for such a large industry there’s surprisingly little shop-talk out there. - Okay so the last two newsletters were about research and the workshop was all formal methods, so let’s take a break from “stuff that pays the bills” and chat software philosophy for a bit. This is easier to see with an example. pic. (BACK TO TOP)
It is common to want to parse long strings of digits into integer values. Because it is a common task, we want to optimize it as much as possible. In the blog post, Quickly parsing eight digits, I presented a very quick way to parse eight ASCII characters representing an integers (e.g., 12345678) into the … Continue reading SWAR explained: parsing eight digits (BACK TO TOP)
Remember when systems would go offline to implement changes and updates? Sometimes you still get emails from applications with notifications of downtime, apologizing in advance for any interruption. That’s a costly and outdated way of maintaining applications that are constantly evolving. These days, blue/green deployments address the downtime and embarrassing errors that are commonly associated with taking an application offline for updates. The cost of two production environments. (BACK TO TOP)
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One of my favorite stories by Isaac Asimov is Profession . The following is a spoiler, so please read the story before proceeding if you don't like spoilers. In the futuristic society of year 6000-something, people no longer need to learn their profession from books, lectures or hands-on experience. The folks who end up the best at their craft (determined via competitions) end up with high-demand assignments on "Class A" outer worlds. Ad infinitum, or at least until Singularity . (BACK TO TOP)
Workplace is pre-announcing an integration with WhatsApp that will allow workers to receive information and updates over a channel many of them already use. New research shows that frontline staff feel disengaged from their organizations due to a lack of communication technology. (BACK TO TOP)
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This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya . Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypotheses on Amazon product pages using reinforcement learning techniques. Requirements In Scope (BACK TO TOP)
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You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!" (BACK TO TOP)
Hello! Recently I’ve been thinking about putting my static sites on servers that I run myself instead of using managed services like Netlify or GitHub Pages. Originally I thought that running my own servers would require a lot of maintenance and be a huge pain, but I was chatting with Wesley about what kind of maintainance their servers require, and they convinced me that it might not be that bad. So I decided to try out moving all my static sites to a $5/month server to see what it was like.40. (BACK TO TOP)
The theory of distributed systems promoted the use of logical clocks by introducing the idea of causality tracking as an abstraction for reasoning about concurrency between events in the system. In practice, a lot of systems continue to operate using physical time, which presents difficulties due to clock synchronization drift. In an effort to bridge the gap between physical and logical time, HybridTime combines both logical and physical times in one system. (BACK TO TOP)
by David Barnett Analytics at Khan Academy Providing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere is a lofty goal and one that all of us at Khan Academy pursue with passion. Achieving it means trying to make the best decisions for individual learners across many countries, regions, districts, and schools. In order to do the […] (BACK TO TOP)
I spent a few days playing around with bootloaders for the first time. This post builds up to a text editor with a few keyboard shortcuts. I'll be giving a virtual talk based on this work at Hacker Nights on Jan 27 . There are a definitely bugs. But it's hard to find intermediate resources for bootloader programming so maybe parts of this will be useful. If you already know the basics and the intermediates and just want a fantastic intermediate+ tutorial, maybe try this . It is very good.g.asm . (BACK TO TOP)
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Today's links As stocks tumble, wealthy speculators bid up house prices: The long-run effect of Obama's choice to bail out lenders, not borrowers. Cops' imaginary fears send addicts to real jail: The deadly myth of the fentanyl contact high. It was an unforced error, directed by Goldman-Sachs bankers elevated to the ranks of finance regulators, and we are still living with its consequences. Today, the capital markets are utterly uncoupled from the real economy.g. https://www.reuters.medium.bbc. (BACK TO TOP)
Security is a vital part of application development, yet it may be neglected until an attacker takes advantage of a vulnerability in the system. The consequences of a security breach can damage an application’s integrity as well as a company’s reputation and revenue. Software architects and engineers need to pay special attention to securing the systems they work on. In this article, I will lead you through automating security checks in an application. That generates your API secret and token.0. (BACK TO TOP)
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My public FotoForensics service forbids some kinds of pictures. Besides forbidding porn, we also prohibit photos of IDs: passports, drivers licenses, national IDs, foreign visitor documents (visas), etc. There are two main reasons for this. First, the public Fotoforensics service is public . Other people will see the picture. At minimum, they will probably be seen by myself and my research partners. Most of the time, people don't want their personal IDs to be seen by other people.g.). (BACK TO TOP)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a keystone to accessing AWS accounts, but as companies grow, it can be difficult to understand and standardize, especially across many AWS accounts. To put some personality into the challenges of managing identity for multiple AWS resources and accounts, I’ll start with a short story about a fictional company that you might recognize as similar to the one you work in today! ACME Net is growing fast. Around 10. A world in which Teleport did not exist. (BACK TO TOP)
Weaveworks customers frequently say to us “I love the idea of automation but it is a big change from all my manual approvals. How can I go faster with GitOps but respect compliance?” GitOps, by its nature, already provides an auditable and regulatory compliant method to manage deployments. With GitOps we can guarantee replicas of your desired stack and we can guarantee that legitimate changes are audited (in Git). We are meeting customers where they are today. screenshots below). (BACK TO TOP)
What's worse than finding out that identity thieves took out a 546 percent interest payday loan in your name? How about a 900 percent interest loan? Or how about not learning of the fraudulent loan until it gets handed off to collection agents? One reader's nightmare experience spotlights what can happen when ID thieves and hackers start targeting online payday lenders. (BACK TO TOP)
Up for the "Most Meta Cybercrime Offering" award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services built for cybercriminals, including shops peddling stolen payment cards and identities, spamming tools, email and phone bombing services, and those selling authentication cookies for a slew of popular websites. (BACK TO TOP)
Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , Colin McFarland , Mihir Tendulkar , and Travis Brooks This is the last post in an overview series on experimentation at Netflix. Earlier posts in this series covered the why, what and how of A/B testing, all of which are necessary to reap the benefits of experimentation for product development. But without a little magic, these basics are still not enough. Netflix does not make decisions by committee or by seeking consensus. (BACK TO TOP)
Angus Croll Netflix is used by 222 million members and runs on over 1700 device types ranging from state-of-the-art smart TVs to low-cost mobile devices. At Netflix we’re proud of our reliability and we want to keep it that way. To that end, it’s important that we prevent significant performance regressions from reaching the production app. Sluggish scrolling or late rendering is frustrating and triggers accidental navigations. Choppy playback makes watching a show less enjoyable.g. (BACK TO TOP)
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Derationalizing, Part 1: Question the Obvious (BACK TO TOP)
Derationalizing, Part 2: Check your Blind Spot (BACK TO TOP)
Welcome to the a16z podcast. Today we’re talking about the mindsets and frameworks founders should know about when navigating the mergers and acquisitions or M&A process, both before and after – including how to think about the pricing dynamics, factors that go into the decision-making process, and what to expect from the integration once the... Read More The post M&A, Before and After: What Founders Need to Know appeared first on Future . (BACK TO TOP)
Biotech founders face a variety of challenges in building a successful startup. Beyond confronting daunting scientific and technical hurdles, they must develop a strategy to ensure their technology has a compelling business model and is focused on the right problems. Also, they need a plan for how the tech will go the distance — i.e., when... Read More The post Anatomy of a Biotech Business Development Deal appeared first on Future . (BACK TO TOP)
This is an edited excerpt from Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution, a Substack “memoir” from Steven Sinofsky about his time at Microsoft during rise of the PC. This post includes parts from entries 55-57, shedding light on the transition of Microsoft Office from an end user–focused product to an... Read More The post Hardcore Software: When Microsoft Office Went Enterprise appeared first on Future . (BACK TO TOP)
The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed. (BACK TO TOP)
Belinda Zeng, head of applied science and engineering at Amazon Search Science and AI, shares her perspective. (BACK TO TOP)
Innovative training methods and model compression techniques combine with clever engineering to keep speech processing local. (BACK TO TOP)
Arabic posed unique challenges for speech recognition, language understanding, and speech synthesis. (BACK TO TOP)
Microsoft Paint was one of the first creative outlets for many children when they first laid hands on a computer in the 1990s. Now, [Volos Projects] has brought the joy …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Browsing through the recent projects on Hackaday.io, we’ve found this entry by [NanoCodeBug]: a single-PCB low-power trinket reviving the “pocket pet” concept while having some fun in the process! Some …read more (BACK TO TOP)
[Voja Antonic] has been building digital computers since before many of us were born. He designed with the Z80 when it was new, and has decades of freelance embedded experience, …read more (BACK TO TOP)
The MIDI format has long been used to create some banging electronic music, so it’s refreshing to see how [John P. Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing …read more (BACK TO TOP)
One of the most common questions we receive at Go Time is how to handle schema migrations in Go. In this episode Jon is joined by Mike Fridman and Vojtech Vitek, maintainers of the popular schema migration tool pressly/goose, to discuss techniques, tools, and tips for handling schema migrations. (BACK TO TOP)
Vincent Ambo –the person behind nixery.dev, tvl.fyi, and a former Google engineer– shares his take on monorepos, Nix, and fully declarative systems without any Flux, Argo or Kubernetes. While the tooling is impressive, it’s the principles behind it that captivated Gerhard’s imagination. Vincent has a rather interesting take on the monorepository idea, including one change - one version - one deploy. (BACK TO TOP)
From drug discovery at the Quebec AI Institute to improving capabilities with low-resourced languages at the Masakhane Research Foundation and Google AI, Bonaventure Dossou looks for opportunities to use his expertise in natural language processing to improve the world - and especially to help his homeland in the Benin Republic in Africa. (BACK TO TOP)
This week Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase joined us to catch us up on the next big thing happening in the world of Postgres. Supabase might be best known as “the open source Firebase alternative,” a tagline they might be reluctant to maintain. But from Adam’s perspective, he’s never been more excited about what they’re bringing to market for Postgres fans. Hopefully today’s show sheds some light on why everyone is talking about Supabase. (BACK TO TOP)
Cloudflare has a lot more to offer than merely DDoS protection and CDN services. On this episode, Jon Kuperman joins Amal & Jerod to talk through many of their cool new things like Workers, KV, Durable Objects, and R2 Storage. Thanks to listener Matt Mannucci for requesting this episode! (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Abhijit Guha Roy, Research Software Engineer and Jie Ren, Research Scientist, Google Research Deep machine learning (ML) systems have achieved considerable success in medical image analysis in recent years. One major contributing factor is access to abundant labeled datasets, which are used to train highly effective supervised deep learning models.g. Detecting previously unseen conditions can be thought of as an out-of-distribution (OOD) detection task.g.6%.7% 77% BiT-L 75.6% 79.2% 77. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Matt McEwen, Student Researcher, Google Quantum AI and Lara Faoro, Research Fellow, LPTHE- Sorbonne Université and CNRS (Paris) Quantum processors are made of superconducting quantum bits ( qubits ) that — being quantum objects — are highly susceptible to even tiny amounts of environmental noise. This noise can cause errors in quantum computation that need to be addressed to continue advancing quantum computers. However, the world is full of high-energy radiation.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Sergio Orts Escolano and Jana Ehman, Software Engineers, Google Research Image matting is the process of extracting a precise alpha matte that separates foreground and background objects in an image. This technique has been traditionally used in the filmmaking and photography industry for image and video editing purposes, e.g., background replacement , synthetic bokeh and other visual effects.g. The new Portrait Matting model uses a MobileNetV3 backbone and a shallow (i.e.g.e.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Tom Denton, Software Engineer and Scott Wisdom, Research Scientist, Google Research Birds are all around us, and just by listening, we can learn many things about our environment. Ecologists use birds to understand food systems and forest health — for example, if there are more woodpeckers in a forest, that means there’s a lot of dead wood. Because birds communicate and mark territory with songs and calls, it’s most efficient to identify them by ear.5 dB vs 4.4 dB). (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Heng-Tze Cheng, Senior Staff Software Engineer and Romal Thoppilan, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Language models are becoming more capable than ever before and are helpful in a variety of tasks — translating one language into another, summarizing a long document into a brief highlight, or answering information-seeking questions . Today we’re excited to share recent advances in our “ LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications ” project.g.g.g...e. (BACK TO TOP)
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Part 5 of the comprehensive tutorial series on image formation and camera calibration in Python Introduction The fundamental idea of camera calibration is that given a known set of points in the world and their corresponding projections in the image, we’ve to find the camera matrix responsible for the projection transformation. Then we can project any point in the world onto the image using this matrix. We’ll see how to perform camera calibration in this article. ipympl: This is a game-changer. (BACK TO TOP)
In this post, I briefly talk about how to understand an unsupervised learning method, OPTICS, and its implementation in Python. Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Can I build a neural network that has good taste in music? KC Makes Music, my cousin and client. Image courtesy of KC Makes Music. High-level Summary (the broad strokes) In this project, I wanted to build a tool that could help my cousin, a hip-hop artist named “KC Makes Music”. This tool would assess whether songs he hasn’t released yet had the potential to be popular on Spotify, the gold-standard music streaming service.8% accuracy and 0.646 ROC-AUC.1% accuracy and 0.146.e. Seems about right.. (BACK TO TOP)
Mask clouds (and cloud shadows) effectively on Microsoft Planetary Computer using S2 Cloudless layers from GEE with geeS2Downloader package Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Using the method of weak shuffling Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
An introduction to psychological safety and ways to evaluate the level of safety in your organization. The post Psychological safety is critical for high-performing teams appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
It’s hard to believe we’re already four weeks into the New Year, especially as everything we have to celebrate from 2021 is still fresh in my mind. The post Keeping technologists in the flow state appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Modern apps have been engineered to capture your attention. We explore how to break free and find more focus for your own programming. The post How to defend your attention and find a flow state appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
What would you do if your code repositories suddenly stopped working? The post Securing the data in your online code repository is a shared responsibility appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Welcome to ISSUE #109 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: what the Great Resignation means for developers, the team helping underserved communities build their own LTE networks, and why Canon is telling customers how to defeat its DRM. From… The post The Overflow #109: Developers and the Great Resignation appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Are occasional disasters among widely used open source projects inevitable, or can we find a way to better fund maintainers and security? The post Who’s going to pay to fix open source security? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
With Email Routing, you can effectively start receiving Emails in any of your domains for any number of custom addresses you want and forward the messages to any existing destination mailboxes (BACK TO TOP)
Cloudflare’s Project Galileo provides free protection to at-risk groups across the world including Holocaust educational and remembrance websites (BACK TO TOP)
On January 24, 2022, as a result of an internal product migration, 24 hostnames (including www.cloudflare.com) that were actively proxied through the Cloudflare global network were mistakenly redirected to the wrong origin (BACK TO TOP)
More than 50% of all traffic processed by Cloudflare is API-based, and it’s growing twice as fast as traditional web traffic. This huge growth is driven by a few industries, and it calls for the development of dedicated security solutions (BACK TO TOP)
The early hours of Sunday, January 23, 2022, started in Burkina Faso with an Internet outage or shutdown (BACK TO TOP)
The early hours of Friday, January 21, 2022, started in Yemen with a country-wide Internet outage (BACK TO TOP)
In this latest episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom do their first episode-long dive into DHCPv6, how it works, how it differs from IPv4 DHCP, and some aspects of dealing with its deployment. The post IPv6 Buzz 093: Dissecting DHCPv6 appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Singtel, a global provider of network services. We dive into the services Singtel provides, including Internet, MPLS, IP transit 4G/5G, and why you might want to consider Singtel for cloud connectivity. Our guest is Mark Seabrook, Global Solutions Manager at Singtel. The post Tech Bytes: Singtel And The Cloud-Ready Network (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast delves into issues about monitoring all the things, including the notion of monitoring the cloud...from the cloud. Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks discuss the pros and cons of DIY vs. using a service, differences between monitoring infrastructure stacks and applications, what to monitor and why, how to deal with all that data, the necessity of alerting, constructing meaningful dashboards, and more. (BACK TO TOP)
On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we’re going to talk about how a SASE architecture and a next-generation CASB, or Cloud Access Security Broker, can help security teams manage SaaS risks. The post Tech Bytes: Managing SaaS Risks With Smarter, Cloud-Delivered Security (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Take a Network Break! This week we examine the drivers behind Microsoft's proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard, Juniper integrates its SD-WAN portfolio with Mist Cloud, and Wi-Fi 7 emerges on the horizon. Cisco announces a new Catalyst switch for industrial use cases, Telia Carrier rebrands, and JP Morgan Chase discloses tidbits about its IT strategy. The post Network Break 366: Microsoft Spends $68. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's Heavy Networking gets deep in the guts of what’s going on with all the modern trends in networking: cloud-native, containers, eBPF, Kubernetes, DPUs, and so on. Guests Brent Salisbury and Dave Tucker give their insider’s view of developments in cutting-edge networking tech. You’ll walk away with a better idea of what to pay attention to in the months and years to come. (BACK TO TOP)
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When banks and other financial institutions make their products available via non-banks, we call that Embedded Finance. Think, for example, of a retailer offering financing for people buying goods; or a budgeting app gathering bank transactions to help you categorize and understand your spending patterns. The finance - the money management - has been embedded into the retailer or the budgeting experience. The most important ingredient for these schemes is consumer trust.google. (BACK TO TOP)
Startups are uniquely adept at solving difficult challenges, and Google is committed to partnering with these organizations and delivering technology to help them do so as they start, build, and grow. Over the past year, we’ve deepened our focus on helping startups scale and thrive in the cloud, including launching new resources and mentorship programs, hosting our first-ever Google Cloud Startup Summit, growing our team of startup experts, and more. Join us and let’s get solving. (BACK TO TOP)
In November 2021, we announced the general availability of Tau VMs . Since then, Google Cloud’s Tau VMs with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) have unlocked value for many customers who are now using Tau VMs for their production workloads, such as: Ascend, who achieved over 125% higher performance; Nylas, who gained over 40% higher price-performance; and OpenX, who achieved 40% better price-performance while at the same time reducing their application latency by 62%.” - Paul T. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed service that can swiftly scale to meet performance and storage demands with the click of a button. If you're currently using Bigtable, you might configure your cluster sizes to perform for peak throughput or programmatically scale to match your workload. Bigtable now supports autoscaling for improved manageability, and in one of our experiments autoscaling reduced costs of a common diurnal workload by over 40%. These are the fastest ways to get started. 1. (BACK TO TOP)
Cloud Bigtable launches Autoscaling plus new features for optimizing costs and improved manageability
Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large operational and analytical workloads used by leading businesses across industries, such as The Home Depot , Equifax , and Twitter. Bigtable has more than 10 Exabytes of data under management and processes more than 5 billion requests per second at peak. With autoscaling, you only pay for what you need and you can spend more time on your business instead of managing infrastructure... (BACK TO TOP)
Blockchain technology is yielding tremendous innovation and value creation for consumers and businesses around the world. As the technology becomes more mainstream, companies need scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure on which to grow their businesses and support their networks. We believe Google Cloud can play an important role in this evolution. Participating in node validation and on-chain governance with select partners. (BACK TO TOP)
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . Week of Jan 24-Jan 28 Learn how Sabre leveraged a 10-year partnership with Google Cloud to power the travel industry with innovative technology.g... (BACK TO TOP)
Here at Google Maps Platform, we are embracing low-code development. For more than 15 years, we’ve helped customers like Argos , Dunzo , and Redfin drive success by building custom location-based solutions from scratch. While this approach allows for deep customization, we recognize that not all of our customers have the resources or bandwidth to complete these implementations. One of our most important principles here at Google is “build for everyone. (BACK TO TOP)
In the summer of 2021 Google Cloud Public Sector commissioned Ipsos to ask researchers in educational institutions around the world about their use of cloud computing. The study aimed to measure awareness and usage of Google Cloud, as well as other cloud providers, in order to assess the benefits and challenges of cloud integration. The result ? Among global researchers, Google Cloud has the highest awareness, use, and favorability versus other major cloud vendors. (BACK TO TOP)
Businesses around the globe are continuing to benefit from innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). At F5, we are using AI/MI in meaningful ways to improve data security, fraud detection, bot attack prevention and more. While the benefits of AI/ML for these business processes are well articulated, at F5, we also use AI/ML to optimize our software applications. Using AI/ML for better software engineering is still in its early days... This is our cost function f ... (BACK TO TOP)
Desktop virtualization technology has been available, in a number of forms, for decades. Today, however, enterprises are showing what's possible with modern virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as they leverage Google Cloud VMware Engine to address a range of interesting and often challenging use cases. Synack uses VMware Horizon on Google Cloud VMware Engine to implement a platform for its penetration testing projects and security services. (BACK TO TOP)
In the competitive world of consumer goods, sustainability matters more than ever. In recent Google survey, 82% of consumers said sustainability is more top of mind now than it was before COVID-19 1 and 78% said that big businesses have a role to play in helping to fight climate change. 2 As well as delivering on customers’ heightened expectations, sustainable business practices can help organizations reduce waste and lower operational costs and even help attract top talent. Change is needed.K. (BACK TO TOP)
Sabre is an innovative software and technology company that leverages highly scalable databases and artificial intelligence (AI) to power travel industry partners around the globe. Our company processes more than 12 billion shopping requests and serves over 1 billion travelers every year. The companies that partner with us include airlines, travel websites, agencies, and hotels. We are distinguished by a long history of integrating cutting edge technology into our operations. (BACK TO TOP)
One year after Google App Engine was released in 2008, Java became the second language runtime available on the platform. Java developers were able to deploy and scale their servlet-based web applications easily, without worrying about infrastructure management. Not only Java was able to run then, but alternative JVM languages, like Apache Groovy , and Kotlin are also part of the game. Zooming on the various directories of the project, you’ll find the APIs from the com.google.appengine. (BACK TO TOP)
At Google Cloud NEXT last year, Thomas Kurian referred to AppSheet as Google Cloud's hidden secret —a platform that enables everyone, from developers to marketers to frontline workers, to create powerful applications and automations without writing a single line of code. Now, as we move into 2022, the secret is out. In 2021, we saw more people using AppSheet than ever before, and we’re in awe of the creativity we’ve seen from this community in the sheer variety of apps created... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
2022 is officially upon us, and while 2021 had its fair share of challenges, we continue to be impressed by the technology investments made by our customers and partners and their ongoing migration of legacy systems to the cloud. Before diving into 2022, we thought it would be fun to do a quick roundup of 2021’s ‘greatest migration hits’ first. Migrations are rarely a “one size fits all” project, but with the right solutions and people, it’s more than possible to be successful while moving fast. (BACK TO TOP)
Effective software delivery — usually achieved via continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) — is a top priority for many product development teams. It’s easy to understand why: the 2021 State of DevOps report found that elite performers of software delivery deployed code much more frequently than low performers, with three times fewer change-related failures. Teams who excel at modern software delivery operational practices were also 1. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
We’re inviting Canadian cloud-native technology startups to apply for the second Google Cloud Accelerator Canada cohort. The intensive 10-week virtual bootcamp helps startups prepare for the next phase of growth and development in their journey. Throughout the pandemic, we saw just how important the role of cloud technology is in almost every sector. Twelve startups were selected for our inaugural cohort , representing a range of industries including healthcare, hospitality and real estate. (BACK TO TOP)
As a developer, you want to ensure that as you develop new features for your Dialogflow CX agent, you want to ensure that it passes a fixed number of Test Cases that you have marked as Golden Test Cases. Dialogflow CX not only provides you with a feature to manage a list of Test Cases that you can run against your agent but also understand Test coverage. Sample Agent : ABC Holiday Resorts We will utilize an existing Agent that has been made available for download here... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Communication services providers (CSPs) are experiencing a period of disruption. Overall revenue growth is decelerating and is projected to remain below 1 percent per year, following a trend that started even before the pandemic. 1 At the same time, driven by the pandemic, data consumption in 2020 increased by 30 percent relative to 2019, with some operators even reporting increases of 60 percent. First, operators are looking to establish new sources of revenue.e.e.e.e. 1. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
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