Welcome to issue #215 November 9th, 2020

News

Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13 - Fully managed Cloud SQL cloud database service now supports PostgreSQL 13.

Introducing Document AI platform, a unified console for document processing - Document AI Platform is a unified console for document processing in the cloud.

Cache me if you can with latest Cloud CDN features - New features in Cloud CDN make it easier to start caching content, or manage your settings.

What’s new with Google Cloud - Find newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more in one handy location.

Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

The Cloud trust paradox: To trust cloud computing more, you need the ability to trust it less - Cloud providers should build technologies that allow organizations to benefit from cloud computing while decreasing the amount of trust they need to place into the providers themselves.

Hack your own custom domains for Container Registry - By deploying a serverless reverse proxy, you can customize the behavior of your Container Registry and achieve things like serving images on a custom domain.

Content-based routing using Kubernetes Ingress - In this article, we will see the features Kubernetes Ingress provides for content-based routing and traffic control inside the cluster.

Multi GCP environments with Terraform: from local backend to TF Cloud - An example of how you can manage multiple GCP environments with Terraform Cloud.

Troubleshooting services on GKE - Using a new GKE monitoring dashboard to troubleshoot an incident.

Using Short Lived Credentials for GCP - Solving the problem of accidentally leaking your GCP Credentials.

Reducing your attack surface in GCP with IAP - Reducing attack surface by using Google Identity Aware Proxy.

Exchange AWS Credentials for GCP Credentials using GCP STS Service - Sample procedure and referenced library that will exchange a long term or short term AWS credential for a GCP credential.

Exchange Generic OIDC Credentials for GCP Credentials using GCP STS Service - Procedure and referenced library that will exchange an arbitrary OIDC id_token for a GCP credential.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

Apigee: Your gateway to more manageable APIs for SAP - Google Cloud tools including Apigee API management help companies to do more with their SAP systems, from data monetization to faster innovation.

How Mercari reduced request latency by 15% with Cloud Profiler - Tools like Cloud Profiler and Cloud Trace helped DevOps teams at Mercari track down problems and improve latency of their service.

Big companies love Google Cloud for building the ultimate chat stack, and why we do, too. - How Botcopy is using Dialogflow.

3 Ways to optimize Cloud Run response times - Learn three simple ways to optimize Cloud Run response times by tuning services and creating leaner container images.

Deploy To Google Cloud Run Using Github Actions - A CI/CD solution with GitHub Actions and Cloud Run.

Google Cloud SFTP/FTP Gateway - Couchdrop is a solution that lets you connect to your Google Cloud storage via SFTP/FTP connection.

How to send Telegram Notifications with Google Cloud Build - This article is a quick how-to after struggling with Google Cloud Build about how to send notifications when a build has failed or is successful.

Use Google Cloud user credentials when testing containers locally - Testing container locally requires authentication and bad practices are easy to achieve. Here a simple solution to test securely.

Connecting Google Cloud Functions With MongoDB Atlas - Connect your serverless architecture on GCP using Cloud Functions to your MongoDB Atlas database using network peering and private clouds.

Google Cloud Spanner — Critical Concepts - This article details some of the concepts worth understanding when working with Cloud Spanner.

Google Cloud Spanner Nodes - An in-depth explanation of Cloud Spanner Nodes.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

BigFlow — a Python framework for data processing on GCP - BigFlow is a Python framework for big data processing on GCP.

Automate your Cloud SQL data synchronization to BigQuery with Airflow - Secure your data and workloads using private IP connectivity and Cloud SQL proxy.

Getting Started with Snowflake and Apache Beam on Google Dataflow - Getting started with data processing pipelines on GCP using Apache Beam together with Snowflake.

It’s All Just Wiggly Air: Building Infrastructure to Support Audio Research - Klio is a framework from Spotify based on Apache Beam designed for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other binary files.

Move data from AWS RDS PostgreSQL to GCP BigQuery with Data Pipeline — Part 1 - The article (Part 1 or 2) describes how to automatically move data from RDS PostgreSQL database to a dataset hosted on Google Cloud so that you can manipulate your data through BigQuery.

Move data from AWS RDS PostgreSQL to GCP BigQuery with Data Pipeline — Part 2 - The article (Part 2 or 2) describes how to automatically move data from RDS PostgreSQL database to a dataset hosted on Google Cloud so that you can manipulate your data through BigQuery.

A step-by-step guide deploying Amundsen on Google Cloud Platform - Amdunsen is Lyft’s Data Discovery Platform and metadata engine. It helps the data team to be more productive by saving time spent in the discovery phase — less time searching, more time finding.

Simple automated data cleaning in BigQuery - A query to remove outliers in data.

Google Cloud AI Platform: Hyper-Accessible AI & Machine Learning - In this first article of the series, we present an over of Google AI Platform, exploring the services available to modern data science.

The democratization of insights: Empowering data analysts and business users - We explore how what it means to be “data-driven” has changed over time, and how Google Cloud is helping customers push those boundaries today.

Various

Udemy courses from Dan Sullivan for free until 11/10/2020 15:11 PM PST - A url for the first course is in the title, second one here: https://www.udemy.com/course/google-certified-associate-cloud-engineer-2019-prep-course/?couponCode=378492C9C64770D1F9B0.

Notes from my Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer Certification Exam - Preparing for, writing, and passing the Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer Certification.

Pass GCP Cloud Architect and Data Engineer Professional Certifications in 30 days - Passing both the Google Cloud Platform Professional Data Engineer and Architect Certification exams within 30 days.

How I prepared for GCP Professional DevOps certification exam - Topics to go through when preparing for the DevOps certificate exam.

Preparing for the Associate Cloud Engineer Exam ☁️ - A short course of journey about appearing for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam.

Slides, Videos, Audio

Kubernetes Podcast - #128 Antrea, with Antonin Bas.

GCP Podcast - 2020 Year End Wrap Up.

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Have a great week,

Zdenko