May The 4th Be With You: 7 Amazing Life Lessons From Star Wars
“May the 4th be with you.” Clear your mind young padawan, There is no emotion. There is peace. Through peace, I find clarity. There is no ignorance. There is knowledge.…
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Using VACUUM To Accelerate Transaction ID Freezing In Cloud SQL For PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL uses transaction IDs (TXIDs, XIDs) to implement Multi-Version Concurrency Control semantics (MVCC). The PostgreSQL documentation explains the role of TXIDs as follows: PostgreSQL’s MVCC transaction semantics depend on being…
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New Benchmarks For Securing Chrome From The Center For Internet Security
As the way people work continues to evolve, keeping security policies in place that protect organizations but give workers the ability to get things done is more important than ever.…
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Google Cloud Data Heroes Series: Meet Lynn, A Cloud Architect Equipping Bioinformatic Researchers With Genomic-Scale Data Pipelines On GCP
Google Cloud Data Heroes is a series where we share stories of the everyday heroes who use our data analytics tools to do amazing things. Like any good superhero tale,…
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What Is A Developer’s Worst Enemy?
You’re staring at the blue light showing from your computer screen while your hands work magic on the keyboard. Metal music blasting out of the headphone around your ears. You’ve…
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The Take: Global Tech Antitrust Picks Up Where Anti-Globalization Left Off
What’s News This week, a U.S. Senate committee moved forward a bipartisan billed aimed at curbing the power of big tech by forbidding the large tech platforms from promoting their…
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Creating Custom Notifications With Cloud Monitoring And Cloud Run
The uniqueness of each organization in the enterprise IT space creates interesting challenges in how they need to handle alerts. With many commercial tools in the IT Service Management (ITSM)…
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Patterns For Better Insights And Troubleshooting With Hybrid Cloud Logs
Hybrid and multi-cloud environments produce a boundless array of logs including application and server logs, logs related to cloud services, APIs, orchestrators, gateways and just about anything else running in…
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Megatrends Drive Cloud Adoption—And Improve Security For All
We are often asked if the cloud is more secure than on-premise infrastructure. The quick answer is that, in general, it is. The complete answer is more nuanced and is…
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Five Do’s And Don’ts CSPs Should Know About Going Cloud-Native
As communication service providers (CSPs) continue to focus on capitalizing on the promise of 5G, I’ve been having more conversations with operators and network equipment providers on why and how…
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