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BigQuery has many interesting features, functions and uses cases. There is something from each in this issue plus other interesting stuff.

News

Cloud Scheduler, a fully managed cron job service from Google Cloud - Now, Cloud Scheduler lets you invoke HTTP targets to reach a variety of GCP services, or on on-prem with OAuth/OpenID Connect authentication.

Scan BigQuery for sensitive data using Cloud DLP - The Scan with DLP button lets you run DLP scans directly from the BigQuery UI in just a few clicks, so you can easily discover and classify sensitive data.

Journey Continues — Onward and Upwards! - A brief overview of things that are going on around CDAP (Data Fusion).

Thinking about cloud security? Join us for a new round of Google Cloud Security Talks - Join us for the Google Cloud Security Talks, a live online event on June 10.

Articles, Tutorials

Laying my hands on Anthos — what it is, and what it’s not.. - The first impression of Anthos.

Upgrading a large cluster on GKE - Description of experience of upgrading GKE cluster.

Using Kubernetes Init Containers to decouple the deployment of machine learning applications from their models. - The article describes how to decouple and deploy ML model and application on Kubernetes.

PhpMyAdmin on Google Kubernetes Engine - Deploying phpMyAdmin instance on GKE.

Install WordPress with Nginx Reverse Proxy to Apache on Ubuntu 18.04 — Google Cloud - Install WordPress with Nginx Reverse Proxy to Apache with Ubuntu 18.04 on Google Cloud Platform with PHP 7.3, Nginx, Apache, Let’s Encrypt.

GCP: Folder Hierarchy & Group Management with Terraform - Handling folder hierarchy for resources using Terraform.

Uploading images directly to Cloud Storage using Signed URL - See how to implement a service hosted on GCP that allows users to upload images into Cloud Storage using Signed URL, then serve that static content using managed services.

Authenticated Static Sites on GCS - Granting access to users for a static website hosted on Cloud Storage.

Talk to the Internet with IP Addresses - The article describes how IP addresses are handled on GCP.

Should I query my Firebase database directly, or use Cloud Functions? - Comparison of querying data in Firebase through backend or from a client.

The State of Firebase (mid 2019) - Overview of Firebase features introduced in first half of 2019.

Cloud Run as an internal async worker - Using Cloud Run as an internal async worker to process Cloud Pub/Sub messages.

Cloud Tasks for every HTTP target - Description of Cloud Tasks, history, properties, use case with HTTP target, security.

Build your own event-sourced system using Cloud Spanner - Using event-sourced systems can help solve complex application development problems. Here’s how to deploy one using Cloud Spanner.

Testing Cloud Pub/Sub clients to maximize streaming performance - Using open-source load test framework to benchmark Cloud Pub/Sub ingestion.

Extracting Data from BigQuery table to Parquet into GCS using Cloud Dataflow and Apache Beam - Extracting data using Dataflow from BigQuery into Parquet format and storying into Cloud Storage.

BigQuery GIS + ML on government open data - Analyzing & visualizing housing data using BigQuery.

How to easy understand Analytics Functions on BigQuery - An in-depth explanation of analytical BigQuery functions.

Loading Terabytes of Data From Postgres Into BigQuery - The article describes approaches of exporting data from PostgreSQL and loading into BigQuery.

BigQuery Encryption Functions — Part I: Data deletion/retention with Crypto Shredding - Using BigQuery encryption functions for data deletion and retention

How to Build, Develop and Deploy a Machine Learning Model to predict cars price using Neural Networks - This blog post summarizes the efforts in effectively building and deploying a neural network algorithm to estimate car prices in emerging markets.

Online predictions API using scikit-learn and Cloud Machine Learning Engine on GCP - This post will explain steps to train a model, store classifier on Google Cloud Storage and use Cloud Machine Learning to create an API in order to perform online predictions.

All Aboard the cloudml_train() - A step by step guide on how to use RStudio locally to train with CloudML remotely.

Google's AutoML And BigQuery ML: The Rise Of One-Click Hyperscale Machine Learning - A look at Google's approach to Machine Learning.

Magazine Luiza: How we transformed our e-commerce platform with Apigee, Firebase, and GCP - In 2018, Magazine Luiza concluded its biggest Black Friday ever with the help of GCP, Apigee, and Firebase. Learn how they did it.

You’re Invited to the 30 Day Challenge! - Qwiklabs offers Kubernetes Solutions quests for June’s 30-Day Challenge!

Slides, Videos, Audio

#179 Stackdriver with Rory Petty - Stackdriver with Rory Petty.

Kubernetes Podcast - #55 Solo.io, with Idit Levine.