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What is Cloud NAT?

Cloud NAT is a Network Address Translation System that works in close association with the Google Cloud Platform. The system works towards connecting certain external resources to connect to the internet without any specific public IP address. The Cloud NAT system works under some conditions and prerequisites. By using the Cloud NAT system, you can connect with the Internet via GCP even if you do not own a GCP-specific public IP address. These outbound connections come in handy in multiple projects and applications. Since the internet is a fundamental need for all kinds of applications and sites today, Cloud NAT […]

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Chaos Engineering and AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Supratip Banerjee

Webinar / By Girdharee Saran

In May 2017, at London’s two of the busiest airports, British Airways grounded all of its flights. That day 75,000 passengers of British airways were impacted because of an IT failure. Airline investigations reported that it was the case of poor resilience and lack of proper disaster recovery after a power surge at a UK-based data center. The CEO of British Airways recently explained how that one IT failure cost the company 80 Million Pounds! Even in your companies, failures are bound to happen. “Many unknown factors can not be anticipated in the regular testing scenario for application failure. So

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There’s Actually Very Little That You Can Not Do – Anahit Pogosova – Exclusive Interview With Our Cloud Thought Leader

Featured / By Pavan Gumaste

Anahit Pogosova is Whizlabs‘ one of the 150 Cloud Thought Leader and New Generation Leader of 2021. She is a Lead Cloud Software Engineer at Solita, one of Finland’s largest digital transformation companies. She is an AWS Data Hero and has been architecting and building software solutions with various customers for over a decade. From monolithic on-prem software to the cloud, Anahit is focusing mostly on AWS Data and Serverless services. Even during her busy schedule, she finds time to speak at various local and international events. She also writes about AWS on Solita developers’ blog and has been a

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What is Docker?

DevOps / By Girdharee Saran

Docker is an innovative open platform that plays a major role in developing, running, and shipping applications. It has the ability to help you create a partition of your application from its infrastructure, with an intention to deliver the software on a quick note. To be precise, Docker is meant for containerized applications. The intention of a containerization platform is to enable the developers to package applications into the containers. The containers intend to simplify the seamless delivery of all of the distributed applications. The Docker ideology is gaining popularity amidst the developers, as most of the organizations are shifting their

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How to Become Azure Data Scientist?

Microsoft Azure / By Girdharee Saran

The demand for cloud-based infrastructure has grown over the years through the pandemic, and now companies see it as a cost-effective and easier solution. A data-driven approach is also evolving greatly as businesses continue to realize their potential. Companies are currently hiring fresh Azure data scientists to help make crucial business decisions through accurate data comprehension. This is the reason why knowing about Microsoft Azure is a brilliant way to advance your career as an IT professional. Being a data scientist with expertise in Microsoft Azure is not a complicated process, so we will lay down all the points that

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List of Top 10 Azure Services

Microsoft Azure / By Girdharee Saran

A public cloud computing platform, Microsoft Azure offers infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and a serverless model. A constant hybrid cloud, Microsoft Azure is growing in demand with approximately 90% of the Fortune 500 companies using Azure services. The Azure cloud services are trained and created to deploy and manage even complex apps, through virtual infrastructure. It supports various programming languages, devices, databases, operating systems, and extensive frameworks. Therefore, Azure services intended for the professionals and enterprises offer all-around alternatives to the traditional means of organizational processes, with top Azure

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A Complete Guide to Cloud IAM

Google Cloud / By Girdharee Saran

Cloud IAM or Identity and Access Management service intend to allow you granular access to the specific resources within Google Cloud. Along with that, it also prevents unauthorized access to any of the respective resources. Google Cloud IAM is more like the security principle of the cloud services, which clearly states that no one should get the additional permissions that are not authorized by the main user. As the technology environments of the organizations are growing with several cloud resources under Google, there is a strong need for ensuring appropriate access to protect their integrity and data security. Traditionally, before cloud services

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What is a Cloud Spanner?

Google Cloud / By Girdharee Saran

Google Cloud Spanner is one of great databases offered by Google for refining the organizational application functionalities. Organizations believe that a database is somehow an integral part of almost all applications. And, understandably, proficient apps need high-end databases to operate seamlessly. Cloud Spanner has all enterprise-grade attributes in it to make it a consistent database service by Cloud. The major benefit of using this database service by Google is that it allows combining the structure of a relational database with the non-relational horizontal scale. It has a unique design that extends its services to support the transaction processing aspects over

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What is Google Cloud Dataproc?

Google Cloud / By Girdharee Saran

Google Cloud Dataproc is yet another popular managed service that has the potential of processing large datasets, especially the ones used within Big Data initiatives. It is one of the most preferred public offerings of Google Cloud. With Dataproc, you can intend to process, transform & understand the vast data quantities. Organizations or enterprises can make use of it, for processing data from millions of IoT devices, for predicting business opportunities in terms of sales and manufacturing. Apart from that, the organizations can also make use of it for analyzing the log files to identity loopholes within the security aspects. Google Cloud Dataproc

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Cloud Datastore – Everything You Need To Know

Google Cloud / By Girdharee Saran

Google Cloud Datastore is a NoSQL database with high scalability for the applications. The purpose of Cloud Datastore is to handle replication and sharding aspects, to give you a durable and available database for automatic scaling of the load embedded over applications. Google Cloud Datastore offers high-end capabilities that include SQL-like queries, ACID transactions, indexes, and others, to help enhance the end outcomes. It is not just feasible concerning your scaling aspects but also takes care of application development and high performance. Cloud Datastore is rich with high-end functionalities to carry out atomic transactions. The datastore has the potential to execute several sets

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