Google Cloud Weekly - GCP Newsletter #348
Welcome to issue #348 May 29th, 2023
News
Infrastructure Official BlogNow open, new Doha cloud region set to support Qatar’s National Vision 2030 - The new Google Cloud region in Doha, Qatar is now open and expected to contribute a cumulative 18.9 billion USD in economic output to the economy of Qatar.
BigQuery Data Analytics Official BlogIntroducing partitioning and clustering recommendations for optimizing BigQuery usage - The BigQuery partitioning and clustering recommender analyzes workloads and tables and identifies potential cost-optimization opportunities.
BigQuery Data Analytics Official BlogTransform your unstructured data with AI using BigQuery object tables, now GA - BigQuery object tables offer a structured record interface for unstructured data, so you can process and manage it securely and programmatically.
Compute Engine Official BlogGenerally Available: C3 VMs with 4th Gen Intel Xeon and industry-leading price-performance - Now GA, the C3 machine series is a general-purpose VM family that delivers price-performance improvements for a wide variety of workloads.
Cloud Firestore Eventarc Official Blog ServerlessFirestore adds three new trigger destinations through an integration with Eventarc - Firestore adds support for 3 new trigger destinations (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions Gen 2, Google Kubernetes Engine) through an integration with Eventarc.
Google Cloud Platform Official BlogThe search experience within the Google Cloud console just got a bit easier - We overhauled the search and navigation capabilities of the Google Cloud console, making it easier to find what you need, when you need it.
Cloud Run Official Blog ServerlessCloud Run now supports sidecar deployments — monitoring agents, proxies and more
Official Blog reCAPTCHAIntroducing reCAPTCHA Enterprise Fraud Prevention - reCAPTCHA Enterprise’s new Fraud Prevention uses Google Cloud's fraud models, machine learning, and intelligence to help stop payment fraud.
DevOps Official BlogDevelopers, embrace application modernization with Migrate to Container's new CLI - Improve performance, increase agility, reduce costs and modernize with migrate to containers in the CLI.
DevOps Official BlogWhat’s the future of DevOps? You tell us. Take the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps survey - Take the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps survey, now open, to help inform DORA's next report.
AI Official BlogGoogle is named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services report - Gartner names Google a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services report.
Articles, Tutorials
Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes
Networking Official Blog VPCDeploy Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) without multiple VPCs — technical deep dive - Improve resiliency with dynamic routing and smarter networking policies to manage your traffic flow.
Cloud DNS Infrastructure NetworkingExpanding Private DNS Resolution in a Hybrid Environment with Google Cloud Platform - More and more organizations are gravitating towards hybrid environments primarily due to security concerns, or simply because transferring….
GCP Certification Infrastructure Networking SecurityManaging Egress Traffic on Google Cloud Platform with Cloud Secure Web Proxy - This article discusses the usage of Secure Web Proxy to control, secure, and monitor the web egress traffic of an organization’s network.
Google Kubernetes Engine KubernetesStreamline Kubernetes DNS Management: Effortless Lifecycle Control with ExternalDNS - This article covers how to install ExternalDNS in GKE and use the add-on to manage the lifecycle of DNS records.
Google Kubernetes Engine KubernetesOptimising platform spend with cluster autoscaling - This blog post explored how yo leverage cluster autoscaling capabilities to dynamically allocate resources as needed, resulting in more efficient use of infrastructure and lower costs.
App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps
Apigee Official Blog Public Sector SecurityHow Apigee can help government agencies adopt Zero Trust - With the help of APIs and Google Cloud’s Apigee, government agencies can bring application-based information together to support their objectives.
Dialogflow Official BlogHow to integrate a Virtual Agent using Google Dialogflow ES into a Twilio Conversation - Virtual agents can work with Twilio Flex and Dialogflow to improve text-based conversation bots.
Cloud SQL Official BlogWhat's new in PostgreSQL 15 - A closer look at PostgreSQL 15 new features around performance, observatility, scaling and securing your data.
Cloud Logging Official BlogFour steps to managing your Cloud Logging costs on a budget - Follow these best practices to learn how to get the most out of your Google Cloud and third-party logging infrastructure for the lowest cost.
AlloyDB Official BlogBenchmarking for AlloyDB and how to do it - Potential approaches for benchmarking AlloyDB deployments and factors to consider.
Cloud SpannerCloud Spanner — Latency comparison between DML and Mutations - Data Manipulation Language (DML) and Mutations are two APIs in Spanner that you can use to modify data. Each offers similar data….
Cloud Run PythonCloud Run Service with a Python module FastApi and Uvicorn - The goal of this article is showing a complete use case with a Cloud Run service written with a Python module, multiple files, Uvicorn and FastApi.
Cloud Run PythonHow to Connect a FastAPI Server to PostgreSQL and Deploy on GCP Cloud Run - An extensive guide on how to connect your FastAPI application with a custom database and deploy the whole application stack on GCP.
Cloud Functions Cloud Pub/SubOrchestrating Cloud Functions by NestJS Events through Pub/Sub Triggers. - Trigger Cloud Functions from Cloud Pub/Sub service within a Nest.js applications.
Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI
AI Official Blog Vertex AIVertex AI Embeddings for Text: Grounding LLMs made easy - Embeddings for text, vector search, large language models and integration methods for your internal apps.
Google Cloud Platform Official BlogAI in software development: What you need to know - Debunking myths about AI and software development.
Data Analytics Official BlogGet more insights out of your Google Search data with BigQuery - Bulk data exports in the Google Search console let you export search data to BigQuery and run complex queries and create custom reports on it.
Data Analytics NoSQL Official BlogStreaming graph data with Confluent Cloud and Neo4j on Google Cloud - Enrich your graph data on Google Cloud and keep it up to date in real time using Confluent Cloud and Neo4j.
Cloud Run Machine Learning Vertex AIGenerative AI — PaLM-2 model deployment with Cloud Run - Learn how to deploy a simple Gradio app in Cloud Run that calls a PaLM-2 model.
Machine Learning Vertex AIData validations on Vertex AI for metadata and content check - This article introduces metadata and content validations via Vertex AI.
Machine Learning Vertex AIGenerative AI - Getting Started with PaLM 2 - Learn how to get started with Generative AI and PaLm2 on Vertex AI.
Machine Learning Vertex AIGetting Started with Generative AI Studio on Google Cloud - This guide provides instructions on how to use Generative AI Studio through the Google Cloud user interface.
Slides, Videos, Audio
Security Podcast - #122 Firewalls in the Cloud: How to Implement Trust Boundaries for Access Control.
GCP Life Podcast - #40 “Hope You Have Your Sunnies!” – In this episode we discuss; Bruno Aziza Interview, Medibank Class Action, GDG Brisbane, Data Cloud Summit, ANZ Bank Risk Reporting, Looker, Looker Modeler, IBM Hiring Freeze, Chegg Shares.
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Have a great week,
Zdenko
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Welcome to issue #347 May 22nd, 2023 News Cloud Storage Official Blog Understand and manage data at scale with Cloud Storage Insights - The new Storage Insights inventory report offers comprehensive
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Welcome to issue #346 May 15th, 2023 News AI Official Blog Vertex AI Google Cloud advances generative AI at I/O: new foundation models, embeddings, and tuning tools in Vertex AI AI DevOps Official
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Welcome to issue #345 May 8th, 2023 News Active Assist Official Blog Introducing Active Assist recommendations for service limits (quotas) - Active Assist's service limit (quota) recommender
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