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This is last issue containing 2018 reviews! :) Beside that interesting articles like overview of Auth options, different ways of monitoring on GCP, migration from Redis to Memorystore.

News

New BigQuery UI features help you work faster - New features in BigQuery UI like sharing queries or searching through queries.

Articles, Tutorials

5 ways financial services organizations will move faster in the cloud in 2019 - Five things financial services organizations plan to do in the cloud in 2019.

Optimize your Google Kubernetes Engine workloads with Spotinst Elastigroup - By leveraging GCP’s Preemptible VMs, Spotinst helps customers eliminate the need to manage infrastructure scaling, reducing costs and operational overhead.

Livin’ la vida local: Easier Kubernetes development from your laptop - Run GPU workloads on minikube.

EdgeFS cluster with Rook in Google Cloud - Kubernetes with Rook Orchestration and EdgeFS as a Geo-Transparent capable data I/O plane.

Application metrics in Istio - How to get application metrics scraped by Istio’s Prometheus.

A complete GCP environment with Terraform - A full Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment built using Terraform automation.

Identity and authentication, the Google Cloud way - Overview of Google Cloud’s authentication and identity management offerings.

How to secure and manage secrets using Google Cloud KMS - Dealing with secrets using Google KMS + Git + IAM+ automation.

Rethinking commercial software delivery with Cloud Spanner and serverless - Serverless computing and globally distributed databases like Spanner can drive down operational costs and enable niche vendors to enter the market.

From Redis to Memorystore: a migration path - Explore Cloud Memorystore which provides fully-managed Redis instances.

What’s the relationship between Firebase and Google Cloud? - Article describes how Firebase relates to Google Cloud Platform.

Developing a cryptocurrency price monitor using Firebase and Google Cloud Platform - How to build a cryptocurrency price monitoring app using Firebase and Google Cloud Platform.

Scheduling Firebase Cloud Functions with Cloud Scheduler - Executing Cloud Function in Firebase regularly with Cloud Scheduler.

Tell me more Internet of Things — Part 2 — Google Cloud IoT cost and value comparison - Store sensor data continuously in a scalable database able to serve for visualization and data analysis.

OpenCensus and AppEngine Flex - Demonstrates how to use OpenCensus with AppEngine Flex.

StatsD OpenCensus backend - Explore utility called statsd-opencensus-backend.

BigQuery: a year in review - List of most prominent and exciting releases/updates for Bigquery throughout 2018.

How to serve BigQuery results from MySQL with Cloud SQL - Using Google Cloud SQL as intermediary to serve results on Data Studio.

Using MongoDB Change Streams to replicate data into BigQuery - Learnings and challenges faced while building a MongoDD to BigQuery data pipeline.

Running Cloud Dataprep jobs on Cloud Dataflow for more control - How to run Cloud Dataprep jobs on Cloud Dataflow.

How to Create A Cloud Dataflow Pipeline Using Java and Apache Maven - How to create a simple Maven project with the Apache Beam SDK in order to run a pipeline on Google Cloud Dataflow service.

Coastal classifiers: using AutoML Vision to assess and track environmental change - Using Google Cloud’s AutoML Vision classifiers to identify attributes in large data sets of coastline imagery.

Whisked Away by BigQuery ML - Creating ML model with BigQuery ML using data about whiskey.

GCP in 2018: Machine Learning overview - Looking back on Google Cloud Platforms’ most impressive ML-related announcements from 2018.

GCP in 2018: Machine Learning Hardware advances - Advancement for Machine Learning Hardware in 2018.

Peak performance: How retailers used Google Cloud during Black Friday/Cyber Monday - How one large-scale retail platform in particular—Shopify—had a successful BFCM using Google Cloud.

Notes from my Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Exam - Notes from Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Exam.

Notes from my Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam - Notes for Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam.

Notes from my beta Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer Exam - Notes for beta Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer Exam.

Slides, Videos, Audio

Kubeflow - Tools and Framework (Google Cloud AI Huddle)