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Google Cloud Blog

How Uber improves network reliability while unblocking cloud migration

Uber has a lot in common with the cities it serves. Both are always changing and growing, both must carefully manage the resulting traffic to prevent congestion and sprawl. Uber has continuously evolved its technical strategies to manage its expanding network, and this careful planning and constant evolution helps ensure that application traffic across its entire platform runs smoothly. Ultimately, maintaining a reliable, high-scale platform that operates seamlessly at any given time is key to p

CustomersCloud MigrationDevelopers & Practitioners
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Google Cloud Blog

Simplify your resilience testing strategy with Fault Injection Testing

When databases fail and network paths falter, you still need your mission-critical cloud services to stay online. Yet guaranteeing high availability has become increasingly difficult because of the complexity of modern distributed systems.  To help you maintain availability and reliability during adverse events, we’re announcing Fault Injection Testing in preview. Fault Injection Testing is designed to help developers and architects automate failure testing to ensure predictable behavior during

Security & IdentityNetworking
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Google Cloud Blog

Using OKF with Knowledge Catalog to serve context for agents

We continue to iterate on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format. But a big question remains: How can you share and govern access to an OKF bundle across an organization? OKF v0.1 established a portable format for the context agents need: markdown files with YAML frontmatter, one required field, and five conventions. Then, OKF v0.2 added the trust signals (provenance, verification, freshness, attestation)

Data Analytics
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Microsoft Azure Blog

The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost

Microsoft Foundry gives you four levers that act on every request, before a single line of agent logic changes. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

AI + machine learningThe Economics of Agent Optimization
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SANS Internet Storm Center

Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory?, (Wed, Aug 26th)

A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"&#;x26;#;x3f;&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; Who can delete or change key things, or modify them in ways that might not be obvious (accidentally or on purpose).&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; Yes, we trust our people, but if they&#;x26;#;39;ve moved on to other roles or to other organizations, they change from "our people" to "used to be our people".&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x2

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Connect Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to cross-account knowledge bases

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in one account can generate answers from an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base backed by Amazon Redshift Serverless in another account, without copying source data. This post covers the architecture, security boundary, and two orchestration models: a code-based Strands agent and a declarative AgentCore harness.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Bedrock Knowledge BasesExpert (400)
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