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Google Cloud Blog

How Deutsche Bank unlocked agility with an API-ready ecosystem

When people think about digital transformation in banking, they often focus on the visible results: mobile apps and new digital services. But there's an invisible infrastructure making all these services possible: APIs. At Deutsche Bank, we recognized that APIs aren't just technical plumbing; they're the nervous system of modern banking.  A few years ago, our application landscape was dominated by monolithic systems. As we evaluated how to break them into modular, reusable APIs, one thing became

API ManagementAI & Machine LearningCustomers
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Google Cloud Blog

How Target is enhancing retail discovery and cutting database maintenance by 50% with Spanner Graph

In today’s retail environment, shoppers expect highly personalized product discovery experiences and conversational assistance that feels genuine, natural, and genuinely helpful. Today, successful product discovery is about understanding semantic meaning and the rich, connected relationships between products, categories, and guest intent. It is no longer just about keywords and basic browsing.  At Target, this work is handled by our Guest Product Confidence platform team. They are responsible fo

AI & Machine LearningData AnalyticsDatabases
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Google Cloud Blog

Introducing Database Operations Agents: The future of autonomous database management

As part of the Agentic Data Cloud launch at Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced two AI-powered database agents to simplify database management. These include the Database Onboarding Agent for Day 0 operations — setup, configuration, and initial deployment — as well as the Database Observability Agent for Day 1 and 2 operations, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance.  These agents are always on, informed by Google’s years of experience, and integrated across Google surfac

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Beyond VLAs: How World Action Models Reshape Robot Manipulation

A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene... A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene often fails when object shapes, positions, or lighting change. Generalizing to these new conditions requires the policy to understand the tasks underlying physics, not just mimic th

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AWS Containers Blog

Extending Amazon ECS Express Mode to Build an Optimal Container Environment

Amazon ECS Express Mode gives you load balancing, scaling, logging, and networking out of the box. Learn how to extend an Express Mode service beyond its defaults with three hands-on examples: turning on ECS Exec, adding a scheduled scaling policy, and adding a FireLens log router as a sidecar container.

Amazon Elastic Container ServiceIntermediate (200)Technical How-to
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GitHub Changelog

Upcoming deprecation of GitHub Spark on github.com

Beginning August 4, 2026, GitHub Spark no longer accepts new users or allows the creation of new apps. Existing users can continue to access GitHub Spark until August 31, 2026… The post Upcoming deprecation of GitHub Spark on github.com appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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