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This week, some products got Alpha, some Beta, some Generally Available status. You can see in News section which status relates to which product.

News

Announcing general availability of Cloud Memorystore for Redis - Cloud Memorystore for Redis is now general availabile. This is a fully managed in-memory data store service built on Google’s highly scalable and reliable infrastructure.

Unlock insights with ease: Data Studio and Cloud Dataprep are now generally available - General availability of both Google Data Studio, our free modern business intelligence product, and Cloud Dataprep, our fully-managed data preparation product.

Introducing new Cloud Source Repositories - Newly revamped Cloud Source Repositories in beta availability.

Introducing Cloud Inference API: uncover insights from large scale, typed time-series data - Announcement of the Cloud Inference API which helps uncover insights from large scale, typed time-series data.

Guard against security vulnerabilities in your software supply chain with Container Registry vulnerability scanning - Announcement of Container Registry vulnerability scanning in beta, helping to automatically detect known security vulnerabilities during the early stages of the CI/CD process and prevent the deployment of vulnerable images.

Google Cloud completes BSI C5 audit - Google Cloud has completed a third party audit against the German Federal Office for Information Security’s Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (commonly referred to as BSI C5).

Articles, Tutorials

LoadBalancing gRPC for Kubernetes Cluster Services - Build sample application demonstrating RoundRobin gRPC loadbalancing on Kubernetes for internal cluster services.

Kubernetes: Customized Cron job with GCP Pub/sub, Cloud SQL, and Batch Jobs. - Build POC to achieve a flow wherein messages are being published to a message queue (Cloud Pub/Sub) every 15 mins based on the data fetched from Database (Cloud SQL).

Deploying Spinnaker on GKE - Steps for getting a production ready Spinnaker installation on Google’s Kubernetes Engine.

Helidon MP on Google Kubernetes Engine - Helidon Framework on Google Kubernetes Engine.

Checking JavaScript with Cloud Builder - Using of Google Cloud Build to do style checking with the JavaScript linter eslint.

How to migrate PostgreSQL databases to Google Cloud SQL? - Migration guide for PostgreSQL databases to Google Cloud SQL.

Simplifying ML predictions with Google Cloud Functions - Build an app for predicting the genres of a movie from its description using a text classification model.

Create a multiregional http monitor in less than five minutes with google cloud function - Using google cloud function to build multiregional http monitor.

Easy Configuration GraphQL Server with Apollo Server 2 and FireBase Cloud Functions (Google Cloud Functions) - How to configure GraphQL Server with Apollo Server 2 and FireBase Cloud Functions .

Ibis and BigQuery: scalable analytics with the comfort of Python - How Ibis works with BigQuery to provide an elegant and flexible Python interface for composing SQL queries.

Peering Into The Visual Landscape Of Half A Billion News Images With Google’s Cloud Inference API - How GDELT project is using newly introduced Cloud Inference API to get insight into various image labels.

Micro-batching with Apache Beam and BigQuery - Explore option for overcoming BigQuery limit whilst still being able to import your data in a timely fashion.

Data Lake API on Microservice Architecture using BigQuery - How Traveloka created solution to deliver data for business (Data Lake API) using GCP.

Analyzing fMRI images on Google Cloud Platform - Leverage GCP for MRI and fMRI analytics with large datasets.

How We Do Serverless ETL with Google Cloud Function - Serverless ETL with Google Cloud Function.

Shipping Serverless AI to Production - Lessons learnt from integrating and deploying Serverless AI models on Google Cloud Platform and Firebase.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #147 Dr. Vukosi Marivate, Andrea Bohmert and Yasin(i) Musa Ayami talk about the burgeoning machine learning community, research, companies and AI investment landscape in Africa.

Kubernetes Podcast - #21 Kubernetes SIG-PM, with Ihor Dvoretskyi.

Google Home meets .NET containers on Google Cloud - In this talk, we will create a Dialogflow app to get a Google Home device to talk to a container managed by Kubernetes/App Engine.