Apigee API Management enables the Italian Public Administration to achieve compliance with the new Interoperability Model (ModI) designed by Agency for Digital Italy (AgID). Apigee provides a foundation for delivering ModI complaints interaction, promoting an API-first approach for maximum accessibility and interoperability. The platform enables Public Administrations and other entities to achieve ModI certification in initiatives and programs.

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Flipkart migrated from Apache HBase to Google Cloud's Bigtable to leverage cloud-native functionalities and scalability. The migration process involved taking a snapshot of the HBase cluster table, copying it to HDFS, and transferring it to a Cloud Storage bucket. Flipkart used Apache HBase as its StateStore in its on-premises deployment.

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Spanner, a general-purpose database, has introduced approximate nearest neighbor support for vector search. This feature enables scalable vector search capabilities directly within the operational database, eliminating the need for a separate database or ETL pipeline. Vector search is useful for finding similar items in unstructured data like images, text, or audio, and enhances large language model prompts to increase relevance and reduce hallucinations.

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Google Cloud believes that compliance efforts can be easier to manage when paired with a powerful platform like Kubernetes. The company provides guidance on implementing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) securely and in compliance with common frameworks, including the Center for Internet Security (CIS).

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BigQuery has transformed into a real-time, event-driven analytical platform to address the challenge of managing continuous data streams. The platform, a favorite among data analysts and engineers, can handle massive datasets and complex queries with ease. With the launch of BigQuery continuous queries, customers can now analyze data in real-time, making it suitable for applications such as real-time analytics, IoT, and security monitoring.

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The Google Cloud Security Summit 2024 will take place on August 20, featuring a dual-track agenda focused on secure cloud platforms and integrating dynamic intelligence and security operations. The event is online and free to attend, with keynotes and sessions led by Sunil Potti, VP/GM of Google Cloud Security, and Punit M. The summit aims to help organizations strengthen their security programs and protect their businesses, customers, and cloud transformations from emerging threats.

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Google Cloud has open-sourced LangChain integrations for its databases, including Vector stores, Document loaders, and Chat message history. The company has also announced a managed integration with LangChain on Vertex AI for AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, allowing developers to build, deploy, and manage AI agents and reasoning frameworks. This integration enables developers to create custom gen AI applications that connect to Google Cloud databases.

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GitLab CI/CD is an integrated continuous integration and delivery platform that automates the build, test, and deployment of code changes. It can be used with Cloud Deploy, a Google managed service, to create a Continuous Delivery pipeline for software delivery from code commit to production release on Cloud Run.

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Many organizations use Terraform as an Infrastructure-as-Code tool for their cloud migration and modernization journeys. You can deploy VM instances from Google Cloud Marketplace, making it easier to discover, procure and deploy enterprise-grade cloud solutions. F5 BIG-IP BEST with IPI and Threat Campaigns is an application delivery and security product available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.

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The Cloud HPC Toolkit, now rebranded as Cluster Toolkit, simplifies the creation and management of high-performance computing environments on Google Cloud. It empowers users to focus on their workloads by streamlining cluster setup and deployment, leveraging Google Cloud's best practices, and offering flexibility for diverse computing tasks.

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