Google Announces a New, More Services-Based Architecture Called Runner V2 to Dataflow

Source:-infoq Steef-Jan Wiggers Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform(GCP). In a recent blog post, Google announced a new, more services-based architecture called Runner v2 to Dataflow – which will include multi-language support for all of its language SDKs. The company redesigned the Dataflow runner for Apache Beam in a second version, offering: Multi-language support Increased parity across SDKs, including state and timer support in Python More I/O’s for Python

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Google Cloud and AWS launch new services on machine learning and containers respectively

Source:-cloudcomputing-news.net Another day, another product launch in the land of the hyperscalers – and for Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS), their new services are focusing on machine learning (ML) and containers respectively. Google’s launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, in beta, aims to provide a way to deploy ‘robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines… and delivers an enterprise-ready, easy to install, secure execution environment for ML workflows.’ This can be seen, for Google Cloud’s customers, as a potential maturation

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What is Kubernetes? An explainer for marketers

Source:-martechtoday.com As businesses look to rebuild their technology infrastructure, many are adopting Kubernetes platforms, a move that has implications for marketing and marketing operation teams. Amy Gesenhues on January 29, 2020 at 8:56 am MORE Chicory, a data platform that enables shoppable recipes, needed to rebuild its technology infrastructure. Because the company relies heavily on being able to access and utilize data in near real-time — analyzing millions of interactions on a daily basis with recipes, ingredients and food brands

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