Did IBM make Watson Visual Recognition paid? - ibm-cloud

It was originally free and I was using it for almost 3-4 months. It told me that I exceeded the quota so I deleted the project and created a new one. I went to Catalog then Watson Visual Recognition and the only plan avaialble is standard which means I have to pay but before I set it up for free and was using it fine since then. Am I doing something wrong or did IBM change something? I even tried this on a new account but it still says the same thing.

As per the Visual Recognition service release notes dated: 16-10-2020
Changes
The following new features and changes to the service are available.
16 October 2020
You can no longer create a Lite plan instance of the Visual Recognition service. However, existing Lite plan instances remain available. You can create new instances as billable Standard plans.
You can check the details in the documentation here

Yes,IBM has made visual recognition to paid..But lite version is still available on the cloud and you can use them for a while like 4-6 months and after the lite plan done you need to get a paid plan which gives you more abilities to do with IBM Watson services currently..And my suggestion if your trying to learn or want to learn or advance these topics see the docs of service.

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Google Analytics 4 (GA4) - Analytics Data API - When will this be out of Alpha, Beta?

Based on the Analytics Data API Banner ("Keep in mind that these APIs are pre-release and subject to change. Code built using these APIs should not be pushed to production. While we will try to notify you of upcoming changes, you should expect to encounter breaking changes before the APIs are publicly released."), the APIs are pre-release and subject to change.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/trusted-testing/analytics-data
When is the Analytics Data API expected to be out of Alpha?
When is it expected to be out of Beta?
Is this timeline a few months, a few quarters, or will it take a year or more to stabilize and publish?
Followup question, if this is going to take some time to move out of Alpha / Beta, do you expect to allow "App+Web" upgrades to downgrade back to "Universal Analytics"?
I have also sent an email to the address in the documentation with no response.
Thanks!
Brie,
I don't believe there is a public timeline on the API release cycle, but we hope to move on to Beta fairly soon. As for your second question, it is not possible to downgrade GA4 (formely App+Web) properties back to "Universal Analytics", as they are fundamentally different.
Thanks,
Ilya
The Google Analytics Team
I imagine most developers are waiting until the official release of the API before incorporating it into their workflows. But I would recommend that we all spend some time testing the API and provide feedback to Google. That way we can point out any issues and suggest features that will be of value.
For example, I want to pull up to 50+ dimensions and metrics but the API limits runReport requests to 9 dimensions and 10 metrics. I doubt Google will budge on those quotas so I figured I'd run multiple queries and merge them programmatically. Unfortunately, that's not a viable approach since there is no universal key/column available to effectively join data across those queries.
However, if the Google Analytics session id were a dimension it could serve as that universal column. So I made an entry under the Google Analytics Issue tracker requesting just that (feel free to star Issue#: 188980721).
So get involved, the sooner we do and vocalize our needs (especially at this stage of development) the more likely the API will meet those goals.

Clarification: Difference between Talend DI & Talend Enterprise version

I would like to understand difference between Talend DI and Talend enterprise version.
Please share your knowledge in this respect.
Talend is constantly changing the naming of his products, so it is quite difficult to know what is behind the name of a version.
Here is a page on talend site :
https://www.talend.com/products/
Talend Data Integration is the 'core' product, with which you can work with talend components to integrate data. It is the equivalent of "Talend Open Studio for Data Integration" in the licensed ecosystem.
Talend Enterprise no longer appears : it is now rebranded as Talend Data Fabric , which is an aggregation of different Talend Apps.
You have to constantly watch for new products rebranding, so bookmark the link given above, as it is my main source of information on this subject.
With the enterprise addition you get additional components that aid mult-user development such as bitbucket(git), TAC - Talend Admin Console that assists scheduling of job amongst others including Big Data components etc. However having said that, you do get a lot in the free version which is a standalone dev tool and mostly there are workarounds for the above but can take significantly longer.

Is there an Integration platform which is open source and free even for a lot of data, for unlimited runs and flows?

From my understanding, Informatica Cloud, Boomi, Talend, JitterBit are all integration tools which have "Connectors" to connect to servers (and I believe these Connectors in turn call APIs to access the required data). I saw many others but none of them are free although some are open source.
Are there any tools that help you visualize the integration process for free? If not, why not?
Tools like Informatica, Boomi provide drag and drop which show the entire flow.
Talend Open Studio is one such tool. not completely visual but almost there.
There are not many free tools as data storage technologies are constantly changing. It would be expensive for developers to keep up with constantly changing technologies without a source of income.
Developing data integration tools are resource intensive. Why would anybody(any enterprise company) spend so much of their effort and give away for free. Also the provider of the tools have to provide support for enterprise level . P1 means 4 hour response which means building the capability of the support team on par with the developer. All of these cost money and time. The only way to recoup is to sell the finished product and provide services.

Postgresql on Swisscom cloud

I think Postgresql is part of the CloudFoundry services but I could not find it in the list of services for the Swisscom Cloud.
I would love to know if it will be added in the future ?
Thanks
The Cloud Foundry Open Source developer, user and engineering community loves PostgreSQL. For example our CI/CD pipeline doesn't support MariaDB. There are a lot of PostgreSQL fans working for the cloud project, but also some guys prefer MariaDB for non-technical reasons.
The official answer is something like this:
Your inquiry concerns a feature that is not currently available in our
platform. We do not comment on the availability of any new features.
We announce them when we are ready. Your request as well as you
e-mail address were transferred to the Application Cloud Product
Management team. They may try to contact you regarding the feature
you requested. We have aggressive road map for next few months and we
plan brining many exciting features for our customers. We can only
say that much that Postgres is defiantly on our radar. Follow our
announcements on twitter channel or on developer.swisscom.com. Our
newsletter also provides frequent updates updates of the Application
Cloud.
Sorry for the management type answer.

Is TFS services free forever?

I have seen at Team Foundation Service free package for 5 users.
Is this free forever or for limited period of time? I mean is this for trial period?
I assume you're referring to the pricing information on the site? That's not a trial pricing model they're referring to. That's the arrangement that will be in place once they start charging.
I can't speak for what Microsoft will do with their pricing plans in the future but I'd be very surprised if they took away free features. If anything I'd expect it to move the other way based on competitive pressures.
The latest pricing structure has been posted since this service has been officially launched. Check out their Visual Studio Online pricing page.
As Dave Chen said, Microsoft has made no promises as to what their pricing will be forever. At this point in time, the Visual Studio Online Basic remains free for up to five users. The tiers above Basic do not receive the free five user allotment. Also, at this point in time, MSDN subscribers can join any Visual Studio Online project for free and do not count against the five free users.
All of this is subject to change.
Microsoft have not announced the pricing model for Team Foundation Service yet.
Brian Harry's blog will probably see the announcment first.
Here is his last comment on the matter.