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Not many news (beside 2 new regions in Asia) but lots of interesting articles about usage of GCP products.

News

Growing our presence in Asia Pacific: New GCP regions in Hong Kong and Jakarta - Sixth APAC region opened today in Hong Kong, with another coming to Jakarta, Indonesia .

Articles, Tutorials

Google Integrates Istio Service Mesh into Kubernetes Service - Istio, the open source service mesh that helps provide traffic management, observability, and security to microservices and distributed applications will be available as one click integration.

How to Restore Neo4j Backups on Kubernetes and GKE - Article describes how to Backup Neo4j Running in Kubernetes.

Running Firecracker VMM on GCP with nested KVM - Instructions to set up Firecracker in a VM (on GCP).

Getting to know the Google Cloud Healthcare API: part 2 - Deeper dive into key concepts implemented in Google Cloud Healthcare API, and show how to perform a basic API implementation.

Pega workflow automation: Simplifying Google's network, and ready for your GCP workloads - Deploying Pega Platform Using Compute Engine and Cloud SQL.

How we tripled the Scalability of our backend API in 24 hours - Improving service backend on GCP.

Build a blog application on Google App Engine: the App Context (part 3) - How to build a blog application in Node.js using the Google Datastore and deploy it to Google App Engine.

Build a blog application on Google App Engine: BlogPost module (part 4)

Dynamic AppEngine Configurations using Gradle Part 2 - How we can easily deploy to various environments like (prod, stag, test) using simple gradle argument.

auth:import existing users from non firebase database into Google Firebase, Google Firestore, real-time database auth user via CLI - Import users into into Google Firebase, Google Firestore.

Spin off an Email Server with Containers using Docker Compose on Google Cloud Platform (Debian 9 Stretch) - Article describes process of creating an email server on Google Cloud Platform.

Cloud Functions pro tips: Building idempotent functions - How to make Cloud Functions idempotent.

Serverless Platform Comparison: Google Cloud Function vs. AWS Lambda - Comparing supported language, ease of deployment, availability, scalability, network performance & stability, CPU throughput, memory management, and pricing for AWS Lambda and Cloud Functions

Tracing Python Cloud Functions - Using Stackdriver Trace for Google Cloud Functions.

Visualize GCP Architecture using Forseti 2.0 and D3.js! - Automatically generate interactive architecture diagrams that represent your GCP environment.

Cloud Bigtable Performance 101 - Explanation of how Bigtable works under the hood.

How-To: running a Google Cloud Dataflow job from Apache NiFi - Integrate NiFi GC Dataflow Job Runner processor into Apache NiFi bundle and Create GC Dataflow job templates.

A solution for implementing industrial predictive maintenance: Part III - A full predictive maintenance reference solution from Google Cloud Platform products, including Cloud IoT Core and Cloud IoT Edge, big data and data processing tools like BigQuery and Cloud Dataflow, and machine learning platforms like Cloud ML Engine.

Import JSON into BigQuery with Google Cloud Functions - Using Google Cloud Functions to Import JSON into BigQuery.

Loading JSON formatted strings into Google BigQuery (Python3) - Loading JSON into Google BigQuery using Python.

gcloud commands - List of main gcloud commands based on GCP product categories.

Capping costs on GCP for many projects with a budget for many months - Tracking billing info for project.

Investing in Pandora’s Core Differentiators - Pandora's (music streaming service) experience with migration from on premise Hadoop to BigQuery.

Migration to Google Cloud Platform - Hike (Indian messaging platform) describes their migration to GCP.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #157 NeurIPS and AI Research with Anima Anandkumar

Kubernetes Podcast - #31 Kontena Pharos, with Jari Kolehmainen

Introduction to Google Cloud Machine learning - Video from GDG Cloud Tel-Aviv.