Google has shifted its AI chip engineering team to the Google Cloud sector, possibly indicating a focus on AI-powered cloud offerings. Statista datashows that Amazon Web Services holds the largest market share in the cloud sector. While Google has released the Bard chatbot, Microsoft has invested .. read more  

In this blog post on "Creating a Landing Zone for Google Cloud with Terraform and Fabric", the author provides a step-by-step guide to set up a production-ready landing zone on GCP using Google's open sourceFabric Fast, a module reference configuration that automates infrastructure as code. The gui.. read more  

The article discusses how a developerunknowingly incurred $3,000 in costs while using Google Cloud BigQuery due to a poorly optimized query. The article outlines three easy steps to optimize the query and reduce costs by 99.97%. These steps include avoiding using "SELECT *", using a partitioned ta.. read more  

Sergey Shcherbakov provides a breakdown of the options for arranging network ingress traffic into Kubernetes clusters, specifically in Google Cloud (GKE) or on-premise (Anthos on Bare Metal, Anthos on VMware). The article disambiguates many technical terms often used in discussions around network i.. read more  

Google is offering a new program called "The Arcade" for developers to enhance their skills with Google Cloud products and technology. The program includes two games per month - one introductory and one advanced - which feature hands-on learning labs to earn digital badges and points. The points ca.. read more  

There was a recently patched Google Cloud vulnerability called Asset Key Thief that allowed Google Cloud principals with the Cloud Asset Viewer role to exfiltrate any user-managed Google Cloud Service Account private key for up to 24 hours after its creation. This vulnerability could result in givi.. read more  

The article discusses how to create a public-facing API Gateway that federates functionality to multiple private APIs. It focuses on creating an experience layer for a fictitious global company by using TypeScript and the AWS CDK. It covers topics such as VPC Interface Endpoints, PrivateLink, and L.. read more  

AWS Application Composeris a visual builder that simplifies and accelerates the process of architecting, configuring, and building serverless applications using AWS services. It allows users to browse and search for AWS services, drag and drop them onto the canvas to expand the architecture, and con.. read more  

Lambda previously had a limit of 6MB on request and response payloads for synchronous invocations, which affected API functions and the amount of data you could send and receive. A common workaround was to put larger files on S3 and return a presigned URL, but this added latency and complexity. Ho.. read more