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How we’re keeping up with the increasing demand for the Google Workspace Administrator role
We’ve rebranded the Professional Collaboration Engineer Certification to the Professional Google Workspace...
Meet the people of Google Cloud: Priyanka Vergadia, bringing Google Cloud to life in illustrations
Editor's note: Cloud computing helps people do all sorts of new things—including, for Priyanka Vergadia, becoming a...
Introducing “Visualizing Google Cloud: 101 Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers and Architects”
Many people are visual learners; I am definitely one of them, and judging by the tremendous response you all showed to...
Cloud CISO Perspectives: April 2022
This month marks one year of our Cloud CISO Perspectives Series! Over the past year, we’ve discussed many milestones...
AWS can’t help Amazon avoid first loss since 2015
Amazon’s fast-growing cloud division couldn’t help its parent company avoid posting its first quarterly loss since...
What is a data lake? Massively scalable storage for big data analytics
In 2011, James Dixon, then CTO of the business intelligence company Pentaho, coined the term data lake. He described...
Why public clouds lead with renewables
It’s no surprise that the top tech companies are also the top cloud companies. It’s also no surprise that these top...
Generally available: Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault
Key Vault now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.
Public preview: Azure Lab Services April 2022 update
Improve performance, reliability, and scalability for Azure Lab Services in the latest update.
Generally available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits
Maximum scale-out limits for Functions Linux Premium plans have been increased in a number of regions.
Clic Santé portal handled up to 365,000 appointments per day with zero downtime
When public health officials in Quebec set out to provide COVID-19 vaccination services for their 8 million residents...
How to work with Azure Functions in C#
Azure Functions is the serverless compute offering in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Essentially, “serverless” means you...
Oracle Java popularity sliding, New Relic reports
While still the industry’s leading Java distribution, Oracle Java’s popularity is half what it was just two years ago,...
Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’
New Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’ makes your private images public.
Generally available: Azure SQL Database storage limits increase for selected compute sizes
Data storage limits have increased over 30% for selected mid-size compute configurations to help reduce costs.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late April 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
Azure SQL—Generally available updates for late April 2022
Generally available enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
Generally available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now includes PgBouncer 1.17
Create a Hyperscale Citus) server group using the latest 1.7 version of PgBouncer, a popular connection pooler for...
Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server higher burstable compute
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server is now offering more options for burstable compute for you to choose from...
Public preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra enhancements
Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra now includes support for deploying Cassandra 4.0 clusters and running...