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Intel, CrowdStrike And Zscaler Unveil Compatible Solutions For Zero Trust Security

Zero trust is maturing as a mainstream security best practice to minimize uncertainty by enforcing accurate, least-privileged access to information. This has become particularly relevant over the past few years, with a growing number of remote workers accessing cloud apps outside the traditional network. No single vendor solution exists today to attain conditional access from edge to cloud. Intel with CrowdStrike and Zscaler demonstrate how multiple vendors working together can help solve information technology (IT) challenges to implement a comprehensive zero trust strategy. Cybersecurity standards organizations, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have published guidance on zero…

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Are Your CICD And DevOps Tools Really Helping Developers?

If you are responsible for your team’s CICD and DevOps tools, have you ever asked yourself if the tools you built are really making developers’ lives easier? Or are they there just to reinforce the rules you’ve set? It’s your responsibility to make sure the tools and procedures you’ve implemented are truly helping software developers do their job. After setting your CICD tools, how frequently have you asked the developers for feedback? How many times have you changed/updated those based on feedback from the developers? Or are all your changes to support new requirements, infrastructure, and analysis tools? You might…

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Five Steps To Help Make Your Software Supply Chain More Secure

Today, we published a new Google research report on software supply chain security because we’ve seen a sharp rise in software supply chain attacks across almost every sector —and expect these trends to continue for the foreseeable future. We urge all organizations to act now to improve their software supply chain security. Among the report’s conclusions, there are two key findings we want to highlight. First, the lessons we’ve learned from various security events call for a more holistic approach to strengthen defenses against software supply chain attacks. Second, we have worked with the security community to develop and deploy…

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6 Common Mistakes To Avoid In RESTful Web API Design

Imagine ordering a “ready-to-assemble” table online, only to find that the delivery package did not include the assembly instructions. You know what the end product looks like, but have little to no clue how to start assembling the individual pieces to get there. A poorly designed API tends to create a similar experience for a consumer developer. Well designed APIs make it easy for consumer developers to find, explore, access, and use them. In some cases, good quality APIs even spark new ideas and open up new use cases for consumer developers. There are methods to improve API design —…

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Workflows Patterns And Best Practices – Part 2

This is part 2 of a three-part series of posts, in which we summarize Workflows and service orchestration patterns. You can apply these patterns to better take advantage of Workflows and service orchestration on Google Cloud.In the first post, we introduced some general tips and tricks, as well as patterns for event-driven orchestrations, parallel steps, and connectors. This second post covers more advanced patterns. Let’s dive in! Design for resiliency with retries and the saga pattern It’s easy to put together a workflow that chains a series of services, especially if you assume that those services will never fail. This…

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4 Low-Effort, High-Impact Ways To Cut Your GKE Costs (And Your Carbon Footprint)

Controlling cloud costs is always top-of-mind for organizations. But how? It can be difficult to surface wasted resources and figure out how best to optimize them without sacrificing performance or availability. Here on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) team, we’re eager to help in any way we can. And after participating in some recent capacity planning exercises of our own, we couldn’t help but notice that there are some low-hanging fruit when it comes to optimization opportunities: According to our internal research, up to one in ten of clusters across the GKE fleet is idle at any given time. Further,…

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Best Practices For Managing Vertex Pipelines Code

Organizations are increasingly using machine learning pipelines to streamline and scale their ML workflows. However, managing these pipelines can be challenging when an organization has multiple ML projects and pipelines at different stages of development. To solve this, we need a way to build upon DevOps concepts and apply them to this ML-specific problem. In this post, we’ll share some best practices on how to manage the codebase for your ML pipelines. The guidance we’re sharing is based on our work with top Google Cloud customers and partners. We’ll provide a few best practices based on pipeline implementation patterns we’ve…

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3 Best Practices To Reduce Application Downtime With Google Cloud’s API Monitoring Tools

How many times have you closed an application when you encounter the “spinning wheel of death” (a melodramatic way of saying an application that is taking too long to load)? In today’s digital economy where many organizations rely on applications as a primary source of revenue, that spinning wheel of death (or poor application performance) can mean lost users or revenue. And just about every modern application relies on APIs as the nervous system across distributed systems, third-party services and microservice architectures. While meeting the need for rapid release cycles and frequent API updates, it is also imperative for IT…

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