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Besides Cloud TPUs being now publicly available, you can be inspired with interesting AI/ML related articles.  

News

Google’s scalable supercomputers for machine learning, Cloud TPU Pods, are now publicly available in beta - Cloud TPU Pods are now available in beta, helping you train models, even very large ones, faster and at lower cost on Google Cloud.

Google Cloud networking in depth: What’s new with Cloud DNS - Cloud DNS private zones, peering, and logging and auditing enhance security and manageability of your private GCP DNS environment.

Innovating for SAP customers with Google Cloud - News related to SAP and GCP.

Deepening the Google Cloud and Red Hat collaboration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Certification - Google Compute Engine is certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

Articles, Tutorials

Deploying a production-grade Helm release on GKE with Terraform - Gruntwork has an automated process for deploying workloads to GKE with Helm and HashiCorp Terraform.

Completely Private GKE Clusters with No Internet Connectivity - The article explains the process of setting up GKE cluster isolated from internet access.

Open-Sourcing Production-Grade Modules for GCP - Terraform modules to deploy basic infrastructure on GCP.

Tips and best practices for moving your VMs to Compute Engine - Migrating your VMs to cloud takes some planning. Here are some tips and best practices when you’re planning a cloud migration to Compute Engine.

API design: Why you should use links, not keys, to represent relationships in APIs - When designing APIs, using web links rather than exposing database keys has several advantages.

3 best features of Google Cloud Run - 3 features that make Cloud Run the standout choice for serverless compute.

Build and deploy serverless dockerized API with Cloud Run - Build and deploy dockerized NodeJs API with Google Cloud Run.

How we built a GitHub App to level up our CI pipeline - Using Github and Cloud Build for CI pipeline.

Firebase Cloud Functions Continous Deploying with Cloud Build - Deploying Firebase Cloud Functions to multiple environments via Cloud Build.

DialogFlow fulfillment —dynamic responses from Google Firestore - How to read information from a database and use it to dynamically generate responses for DialogFlow fulfillment.

Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline - Creating Apache Beam / DataFlow pipeline to parse web server logs.

Utilizing Google Cloud Data Fusion to support Data Engineering at ML6 - Example of Google Cloud Data Fusion pipeline to process JSON data.

Improving data quality for machine learning and analytics with Cloud Dataprep - Learn how Cloud Dataprep can help you prepare even a messy data set for training a machine learning model, after three simple cleaning steps.

Interpreting bag of words models with SHAP - Building a ML model to predict Stack Overflow question tags.

Building a Product Set for Google Cloud Vision Product Search — ML Product Search (Part 2) - Let’s set up a product set in Google Cloud Vision Product Search to make use of machine learning to detect our products in images!

Google Cloud AutoML: Towards Build and Deploy ML Models at Massively Increased Speed and Scale - Leverage Google Cloud AutoML to train high-quality models for prediction problems

No deep learning experience needed: build a text classification model with Google Cloud AutoML Natural Language - Learn how to build a custom text classifier with AutoML Natural Language, trained on the Newsgroups data set, and with an interactive Colab example.

Google Cloud AutoML Vision for Medical Image Classification - Using AutoML to create a model which detects pneumonia based on chest X-ray images.

Passing the (new) Google Professional Data Engineer exam within 7 weeks - Experience of preparing and taking Data Engineer certification.

Notes from my Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer — Section 2 - Notes & topic for preparation of Associate Cloud Engineer certification.

Sunny spells: How SunPower puts solar on your roof with AI Platform - Learn how SunPower uses AI Platform to tell users how and where they should install solar panels, with just a street address.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #176 Human-Centered AI with Di Dang

Kubernetes Podcast - #52 AutoTrader UK, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney

Google I/O 2019 - Youtube playlist of GCP videos from Google I/O 2019