Welcome to issue #113 November 26th, 2018

Could new Microchip AVR-IoT WG development board (with GCP IoT Core integration) be perfect Christmas gift for IoT tinkering? If not at least there is inspiration in this issue to tinker with GCP products like App Engine, Firebase or BigQuery.

News

Google Cloud IoT and Microchip bring simple and secure cloud connectivity to 8-bit MCU with the AVR-IoT WG kit - Secure cloud connectivity to 8-bit MCU with the AVR-IoT WG kit.

Cloud Dataproc Official Blog

Extending the SQL capabilities of your Cloud Dataproc cluster with the Presto optional component - Presto Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data is now available in public beta as an optional component for Cloud Dataproc.

Articles, Tutorials

Kubernetes

I just launched WordPress and MySQL on Kubernetes in 11 minutes - Process of creating WordPress running on Kubernetes.

App Engine Beginner Python Tutorial

Deploying a Django Application to Google App Engine - How to deploy a Django Application to Google App Engine.

App Engine Security

App Engine To App Engine Communication through a Firewall - Allow access from your other applications running in App Engine across different GCP projects.

App Engine

App Engine Project Cleanup - Methods for project clean up for different GAE runtimes and versions.

Firebase

The State of Firebase (late 2018) - List of massive improvements that happened with Firebase in 2018.

Firebase

Firebase: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Part 2 - Describing experience with Firebase.

Cloud Functions Cloud Scheduler

Scheduling data ingest using Cloud Functions and Cloud Scheduler - Periodic data ingest through Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Functions.

Cloud IoT IoT

Arduino and Google Cloud IoT - Arduino client library for Cloud IoT Core.

Cloud Composer Official Blog

Using upstream Apache Airflow Hooks and Operators in Cloud Composer - Walk through an example of how Cloud Composer makes building a pipeline across public clouds easier.

Cloud Dataproc

Starting to develop in PySpark with Jupyter installed in a Big Data Cluster - Steps to start using Jupyter notebooks for PySpark in a Data Proc Cluster in GCP.

Cloud Dataproc

Massively Parallel Computations using DataProc - Calculating integral with Monte Carlo using Spark on Dataproc as an example of parallel computation.

Big Data

How to capture and store tweets in Real Time with Apache Spark and Apache Kafka. Using cloud Platforms such as Databricks and GCP (Part 1) - Capture and store tweets in Real Time with Apache Spark and Apache Kafka.

BigQuery Official Blog

Finding data insights faster with BigQuery and GCP Marketplace solutions - GCP Marketplace offers other options to get data into BigQuery.

BigQuery Machine Learning

Machine learning on machines: building a model to evaluate CPU performance - Training machine learning model to predict machine performance based on hardware and software specifications.

BigQuery Machine Learning TensorFlow

GCP Machine Learning Face-off: BigQuery ML -vs- Custom Estimators in TensorFlow - Article compares two different Machine Learning solutions on Google Cloud.

BigQuery

Plotting Ethereum Address Growth Chart in BigQuery - Solution to plot ethereum address growth chart in BigQuery.

Data Loss Prevention API Official Blog

Taking charge of your data: using Cloud DLP to de-identify and obfuscate sensitive information - How to protect that data by incorporating data obfuscation and minimization techniques automatically into your workflows.

IAM Python Security

Using ImpersonatedCredentials for Google Cloud APIs - Article describe process of obtaining and using tokens for communication between services.

Business

Google's cloud business under Greene was plagued by internal clashes, missed acquisitions, insiders say - Another insight behind recent changes on GCP leadership.

Google Cloud Platform

The 7 Coolest Google Cloud Services To Watch - List of seven Google Cloud services that are rising stars or just emerging onto the cloud scene that solution providers should be keeping eye on.