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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

TOP NEWS & PRODUCT UPDATES

• Google Analytics: Introducing Content Grouping in the Behavior Flow- Content Groupings let you group pages and content into a logical structure that reflects how you think about your site. Now, you can select Content Groupings in the Behavior Flow to see how visitors flow through Content Groupings that you have defined.- May 12




• Google Cloud SQL: MySQL 5.6 now available in Cloud SQL: full text search, geospatial queries and online schema changes- Google has added instances running MySQL 5.6, which includes new features such as geospatial distance queries, full text indexing in InnoDB tables, online schema changes, and a bunch of performance improvements.- May 12




• Firebase: Introducing Firebase Hosting- Firebase has eliminated the need for server-side code and allowed apps to deliver data changes in realtime. With Firebase Hosting, users no longer need to find their own solution for hosting assets (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.). Key features include: CDN-backed global content delivery, automatic SSL certificate provisioning, support for non-SNI devices, custom (and even naked) domain support, one-command deploy, and one-click rollback. Have you tried Firebase Hosting? Be the first to tell other developers about your experience with it.- May 13




• Mailgun: The official Mailgun Ruby Gem is here- Mailgun has added Ruby to the list of official Mailgun SDKs. Just like their PHP SDK, they’ve included some utilities like Message Builder, Batch Sending and Opt-in Hander to simplify common development tasks.- May 13




• AWS CloudTrail: AWS CloudTrail Expands Again - More Locations and Services- AWS CloudTrail records the API calls made in your AWS account and publishes the resulting log files to an Amazon S3 bucket in JSON format, with optional notification to an Amazon SNS topic each time a file is published. They've now added support for the Simple Workflow Service and are also making CloudTrail available in three additional AWS Regions: US West (Northern California), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Ireland).- May 13




• Heroku: Introducing Heroku Connect: Connecting Clouds and Customers- Heroku has announced the general availability of Salesforce1 Heroku Connect. This new Heroku product is a synchronization service, conceptually similar to Dropbox or iCloud, that synchronizes data between a Salesforce deployment and a Heroku Postgres database.- May 13




• Dropbox: Announcing Dropbox webhooks- Dropbox webhooks are a way for server-side apps to get real-time notifications about file changes in Dropbox. Client-side applications have already been able to get low-latency notifications via longpoll_delta or the built-in notifications in the Sync API. Webhooks give this same ability to server-side apps, eliminating the need for polling.- May 14




• Amazon EC2: The New AWS TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) Calculator- The TCO calculator provides reasonable estimates of costs for on-premises/colocation infrastructure and equivalent AWS services based on the information you provide. It also provides a comprehensive & detailed cost breakdown report (which you can download or store in Amazon S3 for sharing with others) and an FAQ that explains the assumptions and the methodology behind the calculations.- May 14




• Openshift: Announcing OpenShift Enterprise 2.1- In addition to fixing a number of bugs and implementing some key requests for enhancement, this release is focused on increasing functionality in 8 important areas: New Content, Central and Consolidated Logging, Metric Gathering, Zones and Regions, Placement Policy Extensibility, External Team Integration, Node Watchman, Offline Developer Productivity.- May 15