Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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News

Announcing the launch of Premium Support for your enterprise and mission-critical needs - New support tiers from Google Cloud offer even more tailored support for enterprise-class, mission-critical workloads.

IBM Power Systems now available on Google Cloud - Customers can run IBM Power Systems as a service on Google Cloud.

Exploring container security: Announcing the CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark - Follow security best practices with new CIS benchmarks for Kubernetes and GKE

Google acquires AppSheet to help businesses create and extend applications—without coding - By joining together, we’re helping companies more easily create and extend applications without the need for professional coding skills.

New Anthos training: a masterclass in hybrid cloud architecture and management - New Anthos training now available.

Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

Using deemed SLIs to measure customer reliability - Following SRE principles involves reliability metrics like SLOs and SLIs. See how CRE teams and customers at Google use deemed SLIs

Performance art: Making cloud network performance benchmarking faster and easier - Learn how to use PerfKit Benchmarker to benchmark the performance of your cloud network.

10 questions to ask yourself when migrating to Google Cloud - Some of the big questions to ask yourself when you want to migrate to Google Cloud.

Disaster Recovery on Google Cloud for Data (Part 2) - The article goes through a process of planing data recovery on Google Cloud.

Kubernetes: Deploying containers in cluster - After a brief explanation of Kubernetes concepts, the sample application is deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine.

How to properly install Knative on GKE - Bypassing a bug when installing Knative on Google Kubernetes Engine.

Setting up Cassandra Multi-Site on Google Kubernetes Engine with Casskop - The article goes through the process of setting Cassandra clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine using the Casskop operator.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

3 Great Options for Persistent Storage with Cloud Run - Examples of storage options for applications deployed on Cloud Run.

Creating a Cloud SQL instance with CMEK - Creating a Cloud SQL instance with a Customer Managed Encryption Keys.

Executing commands on-prem using GCP IoT Core devices - Sending commands from IoT Cloud to a device.

Building Your First Serverless Slack App on GCP is so Easy - Using Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Functions to create a Slack app.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

Deploying and Running CDF pipelines with REST - Using API to manage Cloud Data Fusion instances and deploying pipelines.

Check-list: selecting the right data transformation service for Google BigQuery - List of products on Google Cloud Platform to use for moving data to BigQuery.

How to connect to Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift via QueryPie - QueryPie (SQL Tool) offers now connector to BigQuery.

Want to use AutoML Tables from a Jupyter Notebook? Here’s how - Using Auto ML SDK to in Jupyter Notebooks.

When are the bugs coming? ML modelling in BigQuery to predict the next bug outbreak - Data modeling to answer the question everyone is thinking this time of year in Australia — predicting cockroach and mosquitoes outbreaks!

Using Scikit-learn on Google Cloud Platform - Training Scikit-learn models on GCP’s AI Platform.

The exponential adoption of Tesla in the Netherlands - Exploring the RDW license plate data set with BigQuery, Cloud Storage and Data Studio

Fraud detection with TensorFlow and Explainable AI - Building a model for fraud detection on financial data on AI Platform.

Various

Google Cloud helps retailers win the digital race - Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian shares how we’re working with retailers to help them become more customer-centric and data-driven, accelerate digital and omnichannel revenue growth, and drive operational improvement.

How I was able to clear my Google Cloud Engineer exam - A list of topics to focus on when preparing and taking an exam for Associate Cloud Engineer certification.

Course for Professional Cloud Developer Certification - Free online course for Professional Cloud Developer Certification.

Epic Systems, a major medical records vendor, is warning customers it will stop working with Google Cloud - Account representatives from Epic Systems, one of the largest providers of medical record systems, have started calling customers with a clear message: We will not be pursuing further integrations with Google Cloud.

Slides, Videos, Audio

Kubernetes Podcast - #86 Invention, IBM and Istio, with Lin Sun

Releases

BigQuery - Updated versions of Magnitude Simba JDBC and ODBC drivers have been released. BigQuery Reservations is now available in the London (europe-west2) region.

BigQuery Transfer - There is no longer a charge to use Google's ads management connectors and YouTube connectors for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service.

Cloud Functions - Cloud Functions has added support for a new runtime, Go 1.13, in Beta: The Go Runtime.

Load Balancing - Documentation update for Adding backend buckets to load balancers.

Stackdriver Logging - Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for the Logs Router are now Generally Available (GA).

AI Platform - The price of using NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs for online prediction has changed from $0.9500 per hour to $0.3500 per hour. The price of using NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs for training has changed.

Stackdriver Monitoring - Stackdriver Monitoring in the Cloud Console is Generally Available and is the default option.

Stackdriver - Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for the Logs Router are now Generally Available (GA). Stackdriver Monitoring in the Cloud Console is Generally Available and is the default option.

Web Risk API - The Web Risk API is now generally available.