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Google BigQuery, a serverless Datawarehouse-as-a-Service to batch query huge datasets (Part 1)

Next: Part 2 Google Big Query (GBQ) as a serverless service from Google Serverless is one of big data solution to watch in 2018 according to Computer World UK (/compwuk). Google BigQuery (GBQ) is an example of enterprise-grade serverless service (either Function-as-a-Service, FaaS or Datawarehouse-as-a-Service) offered by Google Cloud Platform. GBQ was first launched as … Read moreGoogle BigQuery, a serverless Datawarehouse-as-a-Service to batch query huge datasets (Part 1)

Microsoft Azure IoT edge

Just launched before IoT expo Amsterdam 2018 (19-20 June 2018), a brilliant approach by Microsoft Azure: embedding intelligence to the IoT devices (namely IoT edges), proposing containerized-driven devs-ops using all their SaaS, providing a public registry for massive involvement, and building a partnership with IoT hardware vendors. It’s a big ecosystem. Just get the deployment … Read moreMicrosoft Azure IoT edge

Google Cloud Speech API

Very often I need to verify whether a video containing certain keywords that I am looking for. That is very difficult to be done unless I watch the entire video or download the subtitle. However, most videos do not have a subtitle inside. I then found out the transcription services on the Internet but the … Read moreGoogle Cloud Speech API

Google Cloud Vision API to detect vehicle plate number

This is why every organization engages artificial intelligence & machine learning. Once they have an “extensively trained” model that has a very good performance, they start selling it. Example: I tried Google Vision API to detect vehicle plates. The accuracy is amazing! Put many CCTVs on the roads, feed the image streams, predict the plate … Read moreGoogle Cloud Vision API to detect vehicle plate number

Precision agriculture for a rural area with limited connectivity

Among many hyped agriculture technologies under industry 4.0 umbrella I’ve ever seen, this Microsoft solution, namely FarmBeats, appropriately addresses Indonesia’s geographical challenges. As a solution architect, what I like the most from the presentation is that how they synthesized the problem and designed a solution for it.Here are the summaries of the challenges:1) limited connectivity … Read morePrecision agriculture for a rural area with limited connectivity