NEAR: Growing Web3 adoption through usability

NEAR, an open-source collective behind the NEAR blockchain protocol and ecosystem, is building its infrastructure services on Google Cloud to address the challenge of usability in Web3 adoption. NEAR provides a scalable and dynamically sharded network that is actually usable, making it easier for developers to build usable products.
#NEAR #Web3 #GoogleCloud

Sovereign clouds are becoming a big deal again

The demand for sovereign clouds has increased in industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and the public sector that face challenges complying with laws and requirements within specific regions. Sovereign clouds are semipublic cloud services owned, controlled, and operated by a particular country, region, or sometimes a cloud provider serving a region to provide computing infrastructure that can support specific government services.
#sovereignclouds #publicsector

The quantum state of a TCP port

The post discusses the application of quantum mechanics to describe the state of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) port.
#quantummechanics #TCPport

5 ways cloud native guardrails help your development team deliver

The traditional ITIL approach to governance is too restrictive for cloud-native environments, causing development teams to slow down. Cloud native governance guardrails, integrated with Kubernetes, can enable self-service and help developers meet business initiatives.
#ITIL #governance

Early-bird registration for Google Cloud Next ‘23 is open now

Google Cloud Next 23 conference is open for registration at the Early Bird rate of $899 USD, taking place in person from August 29-31, 2023. The conference will cover six key topics including data cloud, AI and ML, open infrastructure, cybersecurity, collaboration, and DEI, and will feature sessions on generative AI and other innovations in the cloud industry.
#GoogleCloudNext #conference

How to Create Your Own Portfolio Website in Minutes with GitHub Codespaces and Blazor

GitHub Codespaces allows anyone, regardless of experience level, to create and customize their own portfolio website using the .NET Blazor Portfolio Site project template without needing to install any tools. The development environment is hosted in the cloud, so users can begin coding immediately through their web browser.
#GitHub #Blazor

Turn your database into an API in minutes with Data API builder for Azure Databases

Data API Builder is a Microsoft open-source engine that converts REST and GraphQL into database queries. The Data API builder requires a database and is compatible with Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL to create an API in minutes.
#DataAPIBuilder #Microsoft #Azure

Docker’s bad week

Last week, Docker faced criticism after announcing the sunset of Free Team subscriptions. The open source community was not satisfied with their apology as it failed to address their concerns about the implementation of the transition.
#Docker #FreeTeam #openSource

Announcing higher VM- to-internet throughput for several Compute Engine families

Google Cloud has announced the General Availability of higher egress bandwidth for VM-to-internet traffic on the Compute Engine N2, N2D C2D and M3 families, allowing VMs in these families that have enabled per VM Tier_1 networking performance to have a higher VM-to-internet egress limit up to 25Gbps. This feature enables workloads that need higher VM-to-internet throughput to operate with fewer VMs, resulting in significant cost-savings.
#GoogleCloud #ComputeEngine

Developers, unite! Join the fight for code quality

Software engineers often prioritize speed over quality due to institutional pressure. However, separating quality assurance from development can ultimately harm the software’s short-term readability and long-term extensibility, making it important for quality to belong to everyone in the organization.
#QualityAssurance #SoftwareDevelopment #Extensibility

Extending Cloud Code with custom templates

The post explains how to create and use custom templates in Cloud Code to add features beyond those supported natively, such as .NET functions and event triggered services. The author outlines the limitations of the current Cloud Functions support in Cloud Code and provides instructions on how to extend it with custom sample repositories.
#CloudCode #CustomTemplates

New and Improved Guidance: Grant Permission to Lab Resources

The Azure Lab Services Team is making improvements to the documentation, including guidance on granting permission to lab resources. The guidance covers various roles, resource group and lab plan structures, and moving role assignments from lab accounts to lab plans.
#AzureLabServices #documentation

Managing API sprawl: the case for standards and consistency in API operations

The article discusses the challenges enterprises face with managing APIs and implementing API gateways. It suggests creating a consistent management plane across the API infrastructure that embraces open standards for API operations to simplify API design, operation, governance, and security.
#API #APIgateway

Evaluate SQL Server configuration using Best practices assessment for Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server

The post describes how Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server extends Azure services to SQL Server instances hosted outside of Azure, providing a single pane of glass for all SQL deployments irrespective of their location. It also explains the SQL best practices assessment feature in Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server that provides a mechanism to evaluate the configuration of your SQL Server and provides recommendations.
#AzureArc #SQLServer #bestpractices

Improving efficiency of your eDiscovery workflows with Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) is introducing new capabilities to help organizations drive efficiency, improve workflows and reduce costs for litigations and investigations. The new features include secure access to critical case data and workflows, effective collaboration between internal and external experts, and a new feature that enables eDiscovery admins to manage external user accounts without creating new accounts within an organization’s tenant.
#Microsoft #Purview #eDiscovery

Pub/Sub schema evolution is now GA

Pub/Sub has introduced schema evolution, allowing for safe and convenient updates to schemas with zero downtime for publishers or subscribers. This feature allows for the creation of new revisions of a schema, with all versions available on the schema details page, and the ability to update a topic to specify a range of schema revisions against which Pub/Sub will validate messages.
#PubSub #schemaevolution

PG Verse Receives Millions of Dollars in Pre-A Round Financing

PG Verse has completed a Pre-A round financing worth several million dollars funded by New Access Capital, BlueRun Ventures and Youshan Capital. The funds will be used to bolster the company's Metaverse ambitions and its underlying technology.
#Metaverse #technology

Enhancing OpenText Axcelerate eDiscovery with Translation Capabilities on AWS

OpenText Axcelerate is integrated eDiscovery software that enables organizations to manage and gain value from their business content through the collection, processing, analysis, classification, review, and production of electronically stored information in a single solution.
#OpenText #Axcelerate

Oracle’s Container Engine for Kubernetes to offer managed virtual nodes

Oracle is adding virtual nodes to its Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) service, allowing enterprises to run development operations without managing infrastructure. OKE’s new virtual nodes will eliminate the operational overhead of managing, scaling, upgrading, and troubleshooting worker nodes’ infrastructure.
#Oracle #OKE #Kubernetes

What’s new in TypeScript 5.0

Microsoft announces that TypeScript 5.0, a strongly typed JavaScript variant, is now available with an upgrade to use ECMAScript modules and modernized decorators for class customization.
#Microsoft #TypeScript

Join our top Java experts at Devnexus 2023

Microsoft has been expanding their portfolio of Java-centered apps on Azure, exploring smart serverless, improving cloud functions, and more. They have introduced new features to enhance Java developer productivity and optimize deployment of Spring applications in the cloud.
#Azure #Java #Spring

Connect Zapier with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server to automate your business workflows

Automating daily workflows can give more time to focus on important tasks. This post shows how to integrate Zapier with data stored on Azure Database for MySQL for automating processes and inserting data in a MySQL database when a Google forms response is received.
#Automating #Zapier #MySQL

Chinese Research Team Develops Quantum Chip “Refrigerator”

A Chinese research team has successfully developed a quantum chip that can cool itself to temperatures below 3 millikelvin, which could pave the way for more efficient and powerful quantum computing.
#quantumcomputing #researchteam

Alibaba’s DAMO Academy Leaders Take Charge in AI Development

Leaders from Alibaba’s DAMO Academy are spearheading the company’s advancements in artificial intelligence development.
#Alibaba #DAMOAcademy #AI

Using GKE workload rightsizing to find — and fix — resource utilization

The blog post discusses how to use GKE's built-in tools for workload rightsizing and identifying idle clusters to optimize cost, performance, and reliability at scale across projects and clusters. It introduces the Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) recommendations intelligence dashboard, which uses intelligent recommendations available in Cloud Monitoring combined with GKE cost optimization best practices to help organizations answer questions about workload rightsizing.
#GKE #costoptimization