If you’ve worked in any facet of IT you know all too well how rapidly technology changes. You’ve probably seen some trendy industry buzz words lately like “cloud native”, “containers”, or “infrastructure as code” just to name a few. The Cloud And then there’s “Cloud”—the buzzword to rule them all! If you are coming …
Setting up Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is one of the foundational tasks of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, giving the SRE team a target against which to evaluate whether or not a service is running reliably enough. The inverse of your SLO is your error budget — how much unreliability you are willing to tolerate. …
Telstra, Google and Accenture have joined forces to develop a new 5G powered augmented reality (AR) wayfinding experience at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium that superimposes digital information onto a real-world environment. Showcased at the Google I/O developers conference, the AR wayfinding experience pioneers the latest in Telstra’s 5G developments, delivered on Google Cloud, with machine learning …
From helping you log your meals with MyFitnessPal to getting a holistic view of your health with Withings, apps and devices are a source for many kinds of useful health and fitness data. As Android developers, connecting and sharing this data between apps can help you provide more meaningful experiences and insights for your users. …
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced a strategic partnership to help customers embrace open, differentiated automation technologies and managed services to modernize core business applications and IT infrastructure, while enabling scalable enterprise operations and greater resilience with advanced …
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the IT industry’s largest commercial open source ecosystem supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 acts as a common, trusted platform for hybrid cloud innovation, enabling partners to …
The Fedora Project, a community-driven open source collaboration sponsored by Red Hat, Inc., today announced the general availability of Fedora Linux 36, the latest version of the fully open source Fedora operating system. Sometimes small improvements can make a big impact. This latest version of Fedora Linux brings many under-the-hood improvements for a variety of …
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced Cloudflare D1, a simple and instant serverless database. Cloudflare D1 will enable developers to start building database-backed applications using Cloudflare Workers with just a few clicks. Data will be stored close to where their users are, providing lightning …
Cost optimization is a growing concern for organizations rapidly moving towards open-source and cloud-native projects based on Kubernetes. While flexibility remains one of the key strengths of Kubernetes, it often leads to excessive spending, due to overprovisioning of workload resources. The primary challenge with cost projection and control in a Kubernetes cost management ecosystem is …
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), with plans to offer a broad array of its software catalog as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on AWS. Building on IBM Software being available as-a-Service (aaS) on IBM Cloud, this first-of-its-kind agreement between IBM and AWS will provide clients …
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., announced at the Qualcomm® 5G Summit event new capabilities and milestones for the Snapdragon® X70 5G Modem-RF System. These accomplishments build upon the fifth-generation 5G modem-to-antenna solution announced in February at MWC Barcelona. Harnessing the power of AI for breakthrough 5G performance with 10 Gigabit 5G downloads, incredible upload speeds, low latency, coverage, and …
You can tell the maturity of something by its challenges. For example, the problems of a 27-year-old are different from those of a 47-year-old. In case it’s not clear, this is my attempt at making a relatable analogy to the maturity of Kubernetes. Though, it might be more accurate to say Kubernetes has reached a …
We are announcing that Looker’s new Google Cloud operators for Apache Airflow are available in Cloud Composer, Google Cloud’s fully managed service for orchestrating workflows across cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. This integration gives users the ability to orchestrate Looker persistent derived tables (PDTs) alongside the rest of their data pipeline. Looker PDTs are the …
The pandemic inspired a new way for the government to deliver critical services, standing up digital applications, services and processes at rapid scale (sometimes overnight) to support the mission. This moment in time has fundamentally changed how governments approach modernization, proving that digital transformation can happen rapidly. To sustain an agile, lasting approach to digital …