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AI Hub got improvements and different bits of topics from all over Google Cloud.

News

New homepage and improved collaboration features for AI Hub - New AI Hub features to make collaboration for data science and ML teams even easier, and let GCP users to build on each other’s work.

Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

Connect GCP and AWS with Cloud VPN HA - How to use Cloud VPN in HA to connect AWS and GCP with a 99,99% SLA coverage.

Authenticating using Google OpenID Connect Tokens - An in-depth article about getting, using and verifying OIDC tokens for Google Cloud products.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

Best practices for Cloud Storage cost optimization - Tips on optimizing Cloud Storage buckets or objects based on performance, retention, and access pattern requirements.

Nearby Location Queries with Cloud Firestore - Querying for nearby places with GEO data in Firestore.

Reactive Event-Driven Systems and Recommended Practices - This article discusses how to build reactive event-driven systems and their recommended practices.

Centralized logging for Docker containers using Elasticsearch, fluentd,and Kibana (EFK) on GCP - Centralized logging is with ElasticSearch as an alternative to Stackdriver logging.

A domain is already mapped to another application Mapping Custom Domains Issues - Overriding custom domain in App Engine webapp which is mapped in another project.

Build serverless application on top of Kubernetes - Presentation slides and comments about Knative as serverless solution on top of Kubernetes.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

Understanding Self-Service Analytics on BigQuery with Cloud Dataprep - Using Google Cloud products for analytics.

Self-Service Analytics on BigQuery live in 30 min, stopwatch in hand! - How to leverage BigQuery, Cloud DataPrep, and Data Studio to turn raw data into beautiful reports.

The Caveat of Loading Data to Partitioned Table on BigQuery - Table Partitioning and Why

BigQuery Drop or Change Column - Dropping columns in BigQuery table with DDL statements.

Serverless architecture to deploy and run google dataflow pipelines - Using Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Functions to run Dataflow jobs.

Portable prediction with Tensorflow and Cloud Run - Deploying Tensorflow model on Cloud Run to make predictions.

Using The Cloud To Explore The Linguistic Patterns Of Half A Trillion Words Of News Homepage Hyperlinks - Analyzing text data with BigQuery.

Various

One Year in Cloud Developer Relations - Sharing experience of being DevRel for Google Cloud

How Moorfields is using AutoML to enable clinicians to develop machine learning solutions - Using Google Cloud AutoML, clinicians without prior experience in coding or deep learning at Moorfields Eye Hospital were able to develop ML models to accurately detect common diseases from medical images.

Is Google Cloud eyeing up Nutanix? - Nutanix is a cloud computing software company that sells what it calls hyper-converged infrastructure appliances and software-defined storage.

Google Is Turning to SAP Veterans in the Cloud Computing Race

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #193 Devoted Health and Data Science with Chris Albon

Kubernetes Podcast - #69 kind, with Ben Elder

Releases

Cloud Pub/Sub - Custom-managed encryption keys (CMEK) are available at the General Availability release level.

Cloud Bigtable - The Python client library for Cloud Bigtable is now generally available. Detailed descriptions and examples of write requests are now available in the Cloud Bigtable documentation.

Cloud Dataproc - New sub-minor versions of Cloud Dataproc images: 1.1.120-debian9, 1.2.83-debian9, 1.3.43-debian9, 1.4.14-debian9, 1.3.43-ubuntu18, 1.4.14-ubuntu18.