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Google Cloud Blog

ClusterNetworkPolicy in GKE: Balancing control and autonomy for your microservices

Managing network security in a multi-tenant Kubernetes environment typically requires balancing two distinct needs: developers need their microservices to communicate effectively, while platform and security teams must maintain compliance, prevent lateral movement, and establish cluster-wide guardrails. Historically, the standard Kubernetes NetworkPolicy has been the primary tool for this. While effective for single-namespace isolation, standard NetworkPolicy is scoped strictly to individual nam

Containers & KubernetesGKEDevelopers & Practitioners
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Google Cloud Blog

Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026

At Google Cloud, we help organizations of all sizes build and operationalize complex agentic workflows with total confidence. By combining world-class AI research with an open, fully integrated AI platform, we give customers the flexibility to innovate and the foundation to deliver measurable business value.  At the center of it all is Gemini Enterprise, a unified platform designed to power the agentic enterprise, meet builders where they are, and deliver enterprise trust by default.  We believe

AI & Machine Learning
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ExternalDatabase
AWS Database Blog

Configure AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper connection pooling with the assistant

Learn how to configure connection pooling for the AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. This post explains how the wrapper's external and internal pooling differ, how to choose between them, and how the JDBC-WRAPPER-CONFIGURATION-ASSISTANT helps you build the right configuration.

Advanced (300)Amazon AuroraTechnical How-to
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Dark Reading

Sherlock Holmes was the “OG” Social Engineer

The crime solver wore disguises, spied on targets, and built intelligence networks long before modern-day tactics emerged. He has lessons for today’s ethical- and nonethical-hat hackers.

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ExternalFrontend Development
CSS-Tricks

Animating CSS border-image

Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects. Animating CSS border-image originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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AWS Database Blog

Build zero-downtime write architectures for Amazon Neptune

Learn how to build zero-downtime write architectures for Amazon Neptune using a write queue pattern with Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, or Amazon MSK. By decoupling write acceptance from write execution, your application keeps accepting graph writes during maintenance windows, failovers, and scaling operations.

Advanced (300)Amazon NeptuneBest Practices
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ExternalFrontend Development
CSS-Tricks

SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10

Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10. SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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