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August 2022

Heroku's free tier legacy: The shoulders we stand on 15 years later

On August 15, 2022, we learned the shocking news that free Heroku Dynos, Heroku Postgres and Heroku Data for Redis will no longer be available and existing services will either need to upgrade to a paid service or find another hosting solution by November 28, 2022. Since its conception, Heroku has changed the way developers, hobbyists, students, and indie hackers deploy applications.

Iguazio Product Update: Optimize Your ML Workload Costs with AWS EC2 Spot Instances

Iguazio users can now run their ML workloads on AWS EC2 Spot instances. When running ML functions, you might want to control whether to run on Spot nodes or On-Demand compute instances. When deploying Iguazio MLOps platform on AWS, running a job (e.g. model training) or deploying a serving function users are now able to choose to deploy it on AWS EC2 Spot compute instances.

How Partnering with Microsoft Helps WSO2 Achieve Our Cloud-First Vision

With the global increase in digital adoption, our customers must build better digital experiences for their own customers to stay relevant. There are, however, many underlying components that need to be stitched together and maintained before an organization can start building digital experiences. This process is complex and time consuming, and there are very few organizations that have the capabilities to do so.

Overview & Demo of Talend Cloud Data Catalog

Combining powerful metadata management capabilities with the agility of cloud infrastructure, Talend Data Catalog in the cloud is a robust data governance application that allows your organization to find, catalog, and curate scattered data assets while leveraging all the great benefits of a zero-footprint cloud-based SaaS solution. In this demo, you will learn how Talend Data Catalog in the cloud crawls, catalogs, and traces data assets to provide a complete, end-to-end governance solution for your organization and ensure compliance in a data-driven environment.

Cloud pubsub services compared: Azure Web PubSub vs Ably

This video complements the blog post about Cloud pubsub services compared: Azure Web PubSub & Ably. In the video we highlight the following three major differences between Azure Web PubSub and Ably: Creating the cloud resource Creating a client side connection Presence The blogpost contains the following aspects for the comparison: About Ably

WSO2 Launches WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud to Deliver Best-in-Class CIAM Support for Both B2B and B2C Demands

WSO2 also delivers stronger analytics, typing biometric authentication, multi-attribute login, and added device support with today's releases of WSO2 Identity Server 6.0 and WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud.

How to Connect ThoughtSpot to Amazon Redshift Serverless

Many businesses rely on Amazon Redshift Serverless for their cloud data warehouse and ThoughtSpot to derive insights from the data stored within. For this blog, I’m going to show you how to create a connection between Amazon Redshift Serverless and ThoughtSpot. It’s easy to connect Redshift with ThoughtSpot whether you have it running as a cluster which you have provisioned, or serverless.

Introducing WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud and Identity Server 6.0

WSO2 Identity Server is an API-driven open source IAM product designed to help you build effective CIAM solutions. It is based on open standards such as SAML, OAuth, and OIDC with the deployment options of on-premise, cloud, and hybrid. It supports complex IAM requirements given its high extensibility. WSO2 Identity Server manages more than 1 billion identities worldwide.

Cloud pubsub services compared: Azure Web PubSub vs Ably

In this post, I compare two cloud pubsub services: Azure Web PubSub and Ably, to determine which provides the best development experience. The context will be a multi-user pixelart drawing application that I've built with both services. This is not a step-by-step instruction on how to build the entire application. I'll highlight some key features and differences. The GitHub repository for the app has further details and includes CodeTours to guide you through the solution.

Evolution of API Technologies: From the Cloud Age and Beyond

We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner, APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new products/services and business models. The popularity of APIs has grown significantly in the last decade or so, but the history of APIs stretches back much further.

The Evolution of APIs: From the Cloud Age and Beyond (Part 2)

In our last blog post, we traced the evolution of APIs in the cloud age. The cloud age introduced the idea of an “API economy” — or the business practice of organizations exposing their digital services or information through the controlled use of APIs. While the API economy looks attractive today, we believe it will become even stronger in the future.

Optimize your cloud data cost: 4 steps to reduce cloud data platform cost before they control you

If you have managed a cloud data platform, you have undoubtedly gotten that call. You know the one, it's usually from finance or the office of the CFO, inquiring about your monthly spend. And it usually comes in one of two forms: While both are clear and present dangers to cloud data platform owners, they don’t have to be.

What is an API Gateway?

An API gateway is a server that sits between your backend services and your users. It provides an abstraction layer that helps you manage the communication between clients and your services. API gateways are a single point of entry into a microservices application and they work like a reverse proxy: They receive API calls from clients, route them to the right microservices in the backend, and return aggregated responses to clients.