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Author: Andreas

  • Fohlen

    Fohlen
    Fohlen

  • Fast da.

    Fast da
    Fast da

  • Arbeit war sein Leben

    Arbeit war sein Leben
    Arbeit war sein Leben

    Vor einem Jahr. Genau!

  • Birnbaum

    Birnbaum
    Birnbaum

  • Lebende Statue

    Lebende Statue
    Lebende Statue

    Auch Statuen müssen ja irgendwie zur Arbeit kommen!

  • Are you using Klarna?

    You may be worried now.

  • Google Data Cloud Summit – Recap

    Google’s Data Cloud Summit took place May 26th, 18PT. The summit is home to their big data products and offerings, that aim to help customers succeed in data driven businesses. Here is a summary of news and announcements:

    • Dataplex, an intelligent data fabric. The product allows management of data across multiple sources, including data lakes, data warehouses and data marts for the goal of centralizing management and governance. From there, Dataplex allows to make data available for analytics and data science.
    • Datastream, a server-less change data capture (CDC) and replication service. The service allows to syncronize datasets across multiple systems by transferring changes alone, thus reducing the amount of data transferred and increasing performance and reliability.
    • Announcement of Analytics Hub, a fully-managed service built on BigQuery. The service aims to provide an open ecosystem for sharing and exchanging data across organisations at scale. Part of the offering will be controls and monitoring over data usage and sharing. The hub will offer self service and monetization for data owners, while reducing the need to operate infrastructure for data owners.
    • Dataflow Prime, a no-ops, serverless data processing platform. Dataflow Prime is a managed offering of Apache Beam based data processing pipelines. The product will autoscale infrastructure.
    • Cloud Spanner will allow more flexible and granular instance sizing
    • Key Visualizer, an interactive monitoring tool to analyze usage patterns in Cloud Spanner
    • Cloud Bigtable lifts SLA to 99.999% and introduces new security features. Security features are namely customer managed encryption keys (Googles acronym CMEK) and audit logs. Alongside with SLAs, the product now aims at compliance with regulated industries.
    • Sessions are available on demand. 
    Google Data Cloud Summit

    Join us to learn how leading companies are powering innovation with our data solutions. Attend sessions, demos, and live Q&As to discover how data can help you make smarter business decisions and solve your organization’s most complex challenges.

    Google Data Cloud Summit

    Source: Home – Data Cloud Summit

  • Privacy on the Net

    Screenshot from the ad

    As advertised by Apple. The company introduced a feature called “App tracking transparency”, that defaults to “do not allow tracking” as of version 14.5, that was released earlier this year. The feature allows device-owners to control which apps can track user behaviour across multiple websites.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y
    Apple App Tracking Transparency Ad

    Reality is more complex, as always, but it’s still a great ad.

  • Careful!

    Communism ahead!
    Communism ahead!

  • Amazon Buys MGM Studios

    MGM Logo

    Apple will regret they didn’t snap up MGM. Today Amazon buys MGM Studios for US$9 billion. There are only few other content outlets of this quality, and prices for all others will go up.

    Amazon now owns James Bond Photo: Mladen Antonov/AFP (Getty Images)

    It’s official folks— Jeff Bezos now owns James Bond . After murmurs earlier this week, Amazon announced today that it had acquired MGM in an $8.45 billion deal that will bolster the e-commerce giant’s Hollywood ambitions.

    Gizmodo on Amazon buying MGM

    Source: Amazon Buys MGM Studios for $9 Billion

    The news also appeared on lots of other channels, like The Verge or TechCrunch.