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Improvements for Text to Speech and reverse, Ruby on App Engine Standard GA, Knative overviews and many other interesting articles.

News

Ruby support comes to App Engine standard environment - Support for Ruby is now generally available of App Engine standard environment.

New release of Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop: Improving performance, throughput and more - The latest release of the Google Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop makes it even easier to substitute your HDFS with Cloud Storage for high performance.

Now in beta: Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) - Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is now available in public beta.

Spot slow MySQL queries fast with Stackdriver Monitoring - Use Stackdriver Monitoring and Logging to quickly see why your MySQL or CloudSQL for MySQL queries are running slowly.

Using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to transcribe your Twilio calls in real-time - It’s now easier than ever to integrate live call data with Google Cloud’s Speech-to-Text using Twilio’s Media Streams.

Cloud Text-to-Speech expands its number of voices by nearly 70%, now covering 32 languages and variants - With today’s updates, Cloud Text-to-Speech developers can now reach millions more people across numerous countries with their applications—with many more languages to come.

What’s happening in BigQuery: Adding speed and flexibility with 10x streaming quota, Cloud SQL federation and more - The latest updates for Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse include a streaming quota increase, automatic re-clustering, and lots more features.

Google Cloud and Pluralsight: Powering cloud skills at scale - With over 15 new Google Cloud courses on topics like cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and machine learning, our expanded curriculum on Pluralsight can increase tech skill development for businesses across the globe.

5 steps to improve your cloud security posture with Cloud Security Command Center - Learn how to get started using Cloud Security Command Center to protect your Google Cloud environment.

Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

Kubernetes security audit: What GKE and Anthos users need to know - Read about the implications of the first Kubernetes security audit on GKE and Anthos.

GCP Compute Engine & Resource Level Access Control - Article describes how to assign users to specific Compute Engine resources.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

Cloud Run Using Pubsub Triggers - Demonstrating Cloud Run triggered by PubSub.

Storage transfer from AWS S3 to GCS using API, Solution to insufficient permission error on the… - The article explains how to use Storage Transfer API with Python's client library to transfer data from S3 AWS to Cloud Storage.

Using Google Firestore for a Golang backend application - Example of using Cloud Firestore with Golang client.

Deconstructing Chatbots: How to create FAQ Chatbot with Dialogflow - In this article, you'll learn how to use Dialogflow to convert a FAQ document into a conversational experience.

Easily parallelize very large scale gsutil operations (deletes, copies, rsync’s, moves) - Tips and tricks for Cloud Storage when dealing with large number of files.

Knative — Kubernetes-native PaaS with Serverless - Overview of Knative with the example of deploying to GKE.

Self-Serverless: Why Run Knative Functions on Your Kubernetes Cluster? - Explore six patterns of dev/ops requirements that are driving the adoption of Knative and FaaS on Kubernetes

Migrating from Knative Build to Tekton Pipelines - Tekton Pipelines as an alternative for deprecated Knative Build.

Building a Flask CRUD API with Cloud Firestore and Deploying on Cloud Run. - Deploying CRUD web app on Cloud Run which is using Cloud Firestore as database.

Hosting Flask servers on Firebase from scratch - Demonstration of Firebase Hosting with Cloud Run.

Solution: Rate-limiting strategies and techniques - Solution guide explains why rate limiting is used, describes strategies and techniques for rate limiting, and explains where rate limiting is relevant for Google Cloud Platform products

Using the new list API in Cloud Storage for Firebase - Demonstration of new "listing" feature for Firebase Cloud Storage.

Express Routing with Google Cloud Functions - Using Functions Framework with Express routing.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

Data engineering lessons from Google AdSense: using streaming joins in a recommendation system - The transition from batch to streaming processing for AdSense, applicable for Beam and Cloud Dataflow.

How to quickly solve machine learning forecasting problems using Pandas and BigQuery - Learn how to quickly solve machine learning forecasting problems using Pandas, BigQuery, and Google Cloud AI Platform.

Expanding your patent set with ML and BigQuery - You can use BigQuery and Python to perform faster patent landscaping.

Trimming down over 95% of your BigQuery costs using File Loads - Using BigQuery load jobs in Beam instead of streaming to reduce costs.

Slow BigQuery results no more - How the use of BigQuery Storage API improves the speed of results retrieving from BigQuery.

Nearest neighbor in BigQuery GIS - Queries to find an item from some dataset nearest to each item in another dataset.

Podcast Analytics with BigQuery - Doing podcast analytics in BigQuery.

Deconstructing Chatbots: How to integrate Dialogflow with BigQuery - Writing data from Dialogflow fulfillment to BigQuery.

Various

Music to their ears: microservices on GKE, Preemptible VMs improved Musiio’s efficiency by 7000% - By using GKE and preemptible VMs on Google Cloud, Musiio was able to dramatically improve the efficiency of its microservices-based environment.

How I passed GCP Professional Cloud Architect exam during this summer - With no prior GCP experience

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #192 Cloud Bigtable with Billy Jacobson

Kubernetes Podcast - #68 Container Camp, with Angie Maguire

Releases

Cloud Billing - Set budget alerts on projects and products. Billing Navigation—Invoices renamed to Documents: The Invoices page in the GCP Billing Console has been renamed to Documents.

Google Cloud Composer - Cloud Composer is now available in Sydney (australia-southeast1) and Montreal (northamerica-northeast1). New versions of Cloud Composer images: composer-1.7.5-airflow-1.9.0, composer-1.7.5-airflow-1.10.1, and composer-1.7.5-airflow-1.10.2. Fixed unwanted error output from scheduler pod in Private IP Composer environments.