Google Cloud Weekly - GCP Newsletter #233
Welcome to issue #233 March 15th, 2021
News
Google Cloud Platform Official BlogIntroducing #AskGoogleCloud: A community driven YouTube live series - We’re excited to introduce a new series on the Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel connecting the cloud community directly with our Google Cloud product experts. We'll be selecting questions that use #AskGoogleCloud on Twitter and YouTube and answer them in a featured premiere each quarter by experts in that area.
Data Analytics Official BlogOpen innovations, scaling data science, and amazing data analytics stories from industry leaders - What’s new in data analytics, from the official Google Cloud blog: how to democratize data, how customers are transforming, and new data analytics features.
Cloud Healthcare Cloud Healthcare API Official BlogGoogle’s Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API now generally available - How Google Cloud’s Healthcare Consent Management API is enabling new, patient-centric research and care.
Cloud Code Official Blog Secret ManagerIntroducing Cloud Code Secret Manager Integration - Cloud Code Secret Manager integration.
Cloud Spanner Official BlogExploring Cloud Spanner data in DBeaver - We're announcing native support for Cloud Spanner in DBeaver 21.0, a popular open source graphical database development tool that lets you browse and edit databases, create and execute SQL scripts, export data, transaction management and ER diagrams.
Mission Critical Services Official BlogMission Critical Services: for the most demanding enterprise environments - Mission Critical Services (MCS), a new Value Add Service available for purchase by Premium Support customers, is based on Google Cloud’s approach to its own mission critical services.
Apache Beam Cloud DataflowBeam College - Improve your skills on data processing through flexible hands-on training and practical tips provided by experts. Join the free workshops and learn how to use Apache Beam from concept to common use cases and best practices.
Articles, Tutorials
Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes
Official Blog SREHow do you eat an elephant? Google SREs talk digital transformation - It’s not just about technology. Google Cloud SREs touch on the human and organizational side of a cloud migration.
Google Kubernetes Engine Official BlogBuild your future with GKE - For an idea of where we’re going with Google Kubernetes Engine, take a look at where we’ve been.
Data Loss Prevention API Official BlogTransform data to secure it: Use Cloud DLP - Among the best ways to prevent data loss are to modify, delete, or never collect the data in the first place.
Google Kubernetes Engine Official BlogScaling workloads across multiple dimensions in GKE - In Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), application owners can define multiple autoscaling behaviors for a workload using a single Kubernetes resource: Multidimensional Pod Autoscaler (MPA).
Official Blog VMware EngineZero-footprint DR solution with Google Cloud VMware Engine and Actifio - Learn how to use Actifio data management software plus Google Cloud VMware Engine to create a dynamic, low-cost DR site in the cloud.
Official BlogA guide to data protection offerings in Google Cloud - Storage and backup administrators have a key role to play in cloud adoption, and Google Cloud has developed a number of data protection offerings to help administrators excel in their role and meet operational and compliance requirements.
Beginner Google Kubernetes Engine KubernetesSetting up a Kubernetes Cluster in GCP - A process of setting up GKE.
Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes SecurityGKE: Setting up HTTP(S) on ingress - A short guide on how to create an ingress that uses a pre-shared certificate.
IAM SecurityThree Things About Google Cloud Service Accounts - Things to have in mind when starting using Service Accounts.
TerraformSetting Up Terraform Cloud with GCP - This demo is a basic walkthrough for setting up Terraform Cloud for GCP.
AWS IAM Workload Identity FederationAccess GCP from AWS using Workload Identity Federation - Workload Identity federation allows cloud users to access GCP resources from AWS without the need for service account keys.
Networking Traffic DirectorTraffic Director by Example: Part 1 - An introduction to Google’s managed service mesh offering.
Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Traffic DirectorTraffic Director by Example: Part 2 - Using Traffic Director with Google Kubernetes Engine.
App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps
Cloud Storage Official BlogServing up data from Cloud Storage - When it comes to the cloud, there’s more than one way to serve a file. In this post, we’ll walk you through all the ways to serve data from Cloud Storage—so you can determine the best fit for your needs!
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Memorystore Official BlogCloud Bigtable + Cloud Memorystore: faster together - Databases are designed for specific schemas, queries, and throughput, but if you have data that gets queried more frequently for a period of time, you may want to reduce the load on your database by introducing a cache layer. Here's how to do it in Bigtable with Memorystore for Memcached.
Cloud Pub/Sub Cloud Run Eventarc Official Blog ServerlessThree ways of receiving events in Cloud Run - With Eventarc and Pub/Sub, there are multiple ways of receiving events in Cloud Run. Let’s look at them in detail.
Cloud SQL Official BlogTesting Cloud SQL failover: Where to begin - Let's examine some of the key metrics to monitor when testing failover to optimize your application's performance, including the number of database connections, queries per second, CPU and memory utilization of the instance, read/write IOPS, and peak replication lag.
Firebase Official BlogMeasuring Realtime Database performance with Firebase Performance Monitoring - Firebase Performance Monitoring is a free and cross-platform service to help you collect and analyze RUM data for your app or website.
Firebase Official BlogMigrating to the new Remote Config for Games SDK
BigQuery Cloud Logging DialogflowDialogflow CX Response logging - One of the features of Dialogflow CX is its ability to record its operations to GCP Cloud Logging.
API Gateway BigQuery Cloud FunctionsHow to set up an API with a Cloud Function backend that queries BigQuery on GCP - This article will show you how to create an API with API Gateway and a Cloud Functions backend that queries BigQuery.
Cloud SDKEnumerating the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - A list of useful gcloud commands.
TerraformDon’t Deploy Applications with Terraform - Seriously, Terraform is not application deployment software. Some of you are already using Terraform in this way.
Compute EngineA Brief Guide to Some Common Errors with WordPress Multisite on Google Cloud Platform - Coping with WordPress errors on GCP.
Compute Engine NetworkingHow to Create Multiple External IP Addresses to Point to one VM with GCP - This tutorial explains how to create multiple external IP addresses that point to the same VM instance.
Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI
Airflow Cloud Build Cloud Composer Official BlogUsing Cloud Build to keep Airflow Operators up-to-date in your Composer environment - Learn how to keep your Airflow Operators up to date in your Cloud Composer environment using Cloud Build and a GitHub bot.
AirflowWorking on On-prem/External Airflow with Google Cloud Platform - Connecting from on-prem Airflow instance to GCP.
BigQuery Cloud Data FusionOracle to BigQuery— Create a pipeline to extract data from Oracle and load it to BQ using Data Fusion - Setting pipeline from Oracle to BigQuery in Data Fusion.
BigQueryTime Travel with BigQuery - How to use BigQuery superpowers to rewind time.
Cloud Pub/SubExploring Google Cloud Pub/Sub message schemas - Exploring of new schema capabilities in Cloud Pub/Sub.
Apache BeamGetting Started with Snowflake and Apache Beam - Learn how to use Snowflake with Apache Beam.
BigQuery Data Science Machine LearningBuilding a K-means Clustering Model for Population A/B Testing with BigQuery - How you can use Google’s data warehouse to build homogeneous groups of individuals.
BigQuery Machine LearningCreate recommendation API with GCP x GO x Datastore x BigQuery - A simple recommendation system using BigQuery ML.
Cloud DataprocRunning ETL Spark Job through Dataproc (an ephermal cluster)with Workflow Templates - An example of Spark job running on Cloud Dataproc.
Machine Learning Serverless WorkflowsGCP: Serverless ML Pipeline - A ML pipeline implemented with Cloud Workflows.
BigQuery Data AnalyticsDiscussing privacy at Hacker News: an explorative text-mining analysis - Compiled dataset in Google BigQuery and analyzed posts about privacy with simple text-mining methods.
AI Platform Machine LearningChoosing a machine type on Google AI Platform for training object detection models - Selecting the correct number of machine types for training jobs on AI Platform.
Various
Official BlogCasa dos Ventos advances sustainability mission with SAP S/4HANA on Google Cloud - Thanks to its new cloud infrastructure and scalable services with Google Cloud, Casa dos Ventos was also able to process 20 years of data in less than two hours during its weekly data processes.
Cloud Memorystore GCP Experience Official BlogHow Songkick harmonized their infrastructure with Memorystore - See how concert discovery and music service Songkick migrated to fully managed Memorystore for Redis for a scalable, fast cloud caching solution.
Google Cloud Platform Official BlogGoogle Cloud Celebrates International Women’s Day - In celebration of International Women’s Day 2021, Google Cloud is excited to announce new partnerships with women in tech communities and to highlight some exceptional women Cloud developers.
GCP Certification Machine LearningNotes from my Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer Certification Exam - Notes from Machine Learning certification exam preparation.
GCP Certification Machine LearningStudy guide to ace Google Cloud Certification on Professional Machine Learning Engineer - Comprehensive guide to GCP ML certification.
GCP CertificationMy Review of the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect BETA Exam - An overview of the brand new Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect BETA exam.
Slides, Videos, Audio
GCP Podcast - #250 Chromebook's 10th Birthday with Angela Gosz and Courtney Harrison from Intel.
Kubernetes Podcast - #141 Crossplane, with Daniel Mangum.
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Have a great week,
Zdenko
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