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NVIDIA's press release announces the company's financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025, highlighting record revenues and earnings growth.

Google Cloud's App Engine  enables developers to build and host web applications. An application consists of various  services , each housing multiple  versions  that run on  instances

Google Cloud has announced the general availability of several Gemini in BigQuery features.  These AI-powered tools within BigQuery aim to revolutionise data management and analytics.

Google DeepMind has unveiled Lyria, a cutting-edge AI music generation model, alongside two innovative projects: Dream Track, a YouTube Shorts experiment enabling user-generated soundtracks in the style of various artists; and music AI tools designed to enhance the creative workflows of musicians and producers.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service  offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It  removes the burden  of managing Kubernetes clusters, providing a scalable and highly-available control plane

In today's bonus episode, we talk about the origins of Valentine's Day, tracing its evolution from the brutal deaths of two early Christian saints named Valentinus to its modern commercialised form. 

Google Cloud Dataproc  is a fully managed service for running open-source big data tools like Apache Spark and Hadoop. It offers  serverless deployments  and scalable clusters, simplifying data processing and analysis for structured and unstructured data.

Today, we discuss Alphabet's Q4 earnings and highlights and discuss its performance

Google Cloud App Engine  is a fully managed serverless platform for building and deploying web applications and websites. It supports numerous popular programming languages and offers features like application versioning and a robust services ecosystem.

This deep dive from Amazon Web Services (AWS) details how to migrate, implement, configure, and operate various SAP solutions on the AWS cloud platform. It provides numerous guides covering specific SAP products like SAP HANA, BusinessObjects, and NetWeaver, as well as general guidance on high availability, disaster recovery, and cost estimation

This Google Cloud documentation describes Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network), a service that improves website and application speed by serving content from servers geographically closer to users. It details Cloud CDN's functionality, including caching mechanisms (cache hits, misses, and invalidation), integration with other Google Cloud services like Application Load Balancers and Cloud Stor...

Managed instance groups (MIGs)  offer autoscaling capabilities that let you automatically add or delete virtual machine (VM) instances from a MIG based on increases or decreases in load.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly scalable and available Domain Name System (DNS) web service offering three core functions: domain registration, routing internet traffic to web resources, and health checks on those resources.

Azure Monitor is a comprehensive cloud-based monitoring solution that collects, analyses, and facilitates responses to data from various sources, including cloud and on-premises environments.  What topics do you think we should cover next?

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)  is a Microsoft service enabling the virtualisation of Windows desktops and applications within the Azure cloud.  Key features  include scalability, flexible configurations (including multi-session and single-session options), support for various app formats (Win32, MSIX, Appx), and simplified management via the Azure portal and other tools.  What topics should we cover...

Today's deep dive is into Microsoft Azure Functions, a serverless computing service that enables developers to build event-driven applications with minimal infrastructure management. Could you let us know in the comments what topics we should cover next?

Today's deep dive details how to set up billing alerts within Amazon CloudWatch. It explains how to enable billing alerts, create alarms based on estimated charges exceeding a specified threshold (using the 'Total Estimated Charge' metric), and subsequently delete these alarms. 

This deep dive discusses Google Cloud SQL documentation and describes a fully managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. It details features including high availability, backups, and automated updates, highlighting the reduction in administrative overhead for users.  What do you think we should cover next?

This Microsoft deep dive details the new features of Windows Server 2025.  Significant improvements  are highlighted across security, performance, and administration, including enhancements to Active Directory, SMB, and Hyper-V.  The upgrade process  from previous versions and new features like Hotpatch and Dev Drive are explained.

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Confidential VMs utilise hardware-based memory encryption , providing  isolation  and  attestation  to protect data and applications from unauthorised access. What topic should we talk about next?

This deep dive talks about using SUSE HA extension to make a virtual machine highly available

Today's deep dive explains the different types of load balancers when to use each one, and how they are set up. It also shows how to manage them using Google Cloud's tools.

Looker  from Google Cloud is a product that helps you explore, share, and visualise your company's data so that you can make better business decisions. 

Today, we dive deeply into Apple Intelligence, a new AI system integrated into Apple devices. What do you think we should do next?