Over the past year I’ve spent a fair amount of time working on projects in the computer vision domain. I recently became aware of a couple of announcements about OpenCV and TensorFlow that are pretty exciting and I wanted to share. Continue reading
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Google Analytics and GDPR
In April of 2016, members of the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), aimed at strengthening data protection and privacy for all individuals within the EU. The regulation allowed for a two-year transition period, and becomes enforceable in May of this year, 2018.
There’s a lot to the GDPR (more than can be addressed in a single post at least) but one of the key provisions is that individuals have the right to request erasure of their data from a service provider. This means that many online and cloud service providers will need to have the ability to comply with these requests, even if they’re not based in the EU. Continue reading
Focus on code over infrastructure with Google App Engine Flexible Environment
The Google App Engine Flexible environment, which transitioned from Beta to GA a couple of months ago allows developers to focus on doing what they do best, writing code. Based on Google Compute Engine, the App Engine flexible environment automatically scales your app up and down while balancing the load.Microservices, authorization, SQL and NoSQL databases, traffic splitting, logging, versioning, security scanning, and content delivery networks are all supported natively. In addition, the App Engine flexible environment allows you to customize the runtime and even the operating system of your virtual machine using Dockerfiles.
Data Wars in Ad Tech
In today’s digital economy, data is one of the most valuable assets of any organization. For online advertising, quality data is a requirement for ensuring that the right ad is seen by the right audience at the right time. In the ongoing battle for acquiring this data, several ad tech companies announced last week a new technology consortium to enable the sharing of a common, omni-channel, people-based identifier, between publishers and advertisers who are members.
Google acquires Apigee
In what looks like a really smart move, Google has purchased Apigee – an industry leader in the development, monitoring, and maintenance of APIs for mega-clients like Walgreens, the BBC, eBay, and AT&T. In a blog post, Google SVP Diane Greene succinctly sums up why the acquisition makes so much sense with Google’s cloud strategy:
Google Cloud Vision
If you’re in need of something like Google Image search for your own image set application, then you are now in luck: Google recently announced their Cloud Vision API is entering public beta.