Welcome to issue #268 November 15th, 2021

News

Announcing Vertex Pipelines general availability - Scalably run ML pipelines built with Kubeflow Pipelines or TFX without worrying about spinning up infrastructure.

Announcing Spot Pods for GKE Autopilot—save on fault tolerant workloads - You can save on GKE Autopilot workloads that tolerate interruptions with new Spot Pods.

Enabling SRE best practices: new contextual traces in Cloud Logging - Developers can now view trace information for applications directly in Google Cloud Logging for faster debugging.

JOIN 2021: Sharing our product vision with the Looker community - JOIN is Looker’s annual user conference, and this blog welcomes everyone to the event and gives a sneak peak into the product capabilities and features we will be announcing during the product keynote.

Going beyond the dashboard paradigm with Looker Components - With Looker Components, we hope to introduce a third way to embed data that’s easier to build than a fully-custom front-end on Looker’s API, but offers more flexibility than a monolithic iframe embedded dashboard. And the way we plan to do this is by identifying and exposing reusable patterns in our dashboards themselves.

What’s new at Firebase Summit 2021 - News from Firebase summit.

Announcing a Firestore Connector for Apache Beam and Cloud Dataflow - Google Cloud announces a Firestore connector for Apache Beam, making data processing easier than ever for Firestore users.

Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

Modernizing compliance: Introducing Risk and Compliance as Code - The RCaC solution stack enables compliance and security control automation through a combination of Google Cloud Products, Blueprints, Partner Integrations, workshops and services to simplify and accelerate time to value.

Gitlab CI/CD to deploy applications on GKE using shared runner - A demonstration on how to create a Gitlab CI/CD pipeline that uses a Gitlab Runner to build and push images to GCR and deploy applications on GKE.

Deploy applications to GKE using Google Cloud Deploy - An example of using Google Cloud Deploy.

Google Cloud Network Service Tiers: An overview - With Network Service Tiers, Google Cloud is the first major public cloud to offer a tiered cloud network. Two tiers are available: Premium Tier and Standard Tier. It's important to choose the tier that best meets your needs, and this decision tree can help you decide which tier is right for you.

Secure Software Supply Chain (S3C) in Serverless world - Binary Authorization with Cloud Run.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

Automate your pre-release testing with the App Distribution REST API - WIth Firebase App Distribution REST API you can build custom logic into your team's tools and services to add and remove testers, upload new app binaries, distribute your releases, update release notes, deleting releases, and more.

Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 4: How to handle Promises correctly in your Node.js Cloud Function - Fourth post in a series on how to avoid anti-patterns in Google Cloud Functions as seen by the Support team. This post explores how to verify you are handling promises correctly in Nodejs to avoid saving undefined or cached data in your database.

How StretchMinder uses Firebase - An overview of building a mobile app on Firebase.

How 500.000 people got a COVID-19 vaccine appointment - A story of how a platform for Covid 19 testing in Germany was developed.

Serverless on GCP with Cloud Run - An overview of Cloud Run, a platform built on top of Knative, ideal for both serving and eventing architectures.

Segment analytics with Firebase AB testing - Using non-documented user properties ot segment events in Firebase AB test variants you can compare AB test data in more detail.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

Using Firestore and Apache Beam for data processing - Google Cloud announced a Firestore connector for Apache Beam. What is it, and how can you use it with your data pipelines?

Using Google Cloud Vision API from within a Data Fusion Pipeline - This blogs shows how to connect Data Fusion Pipelines to the Vision Rest API using OAuth.

Going beyond BI with the Looker Marketplace - This post explores how the Looker marketplace acts as an inspiration for developers to build content for the Looker marketplace.

Bring governance and trust to everyone with Looker’s universal semantic model - Looker’s semantic modeling layer works across all experiences and standardizes common metrics and definitions for business users.

How Google Cloud BigQuery enables big DevOps at JFrog - Learn how BigQuery and Data Studio powers operational analytics on the JFrog DevOps Platform.

Building a Data Warehouse on Google Cloud Platform That Scales With the Business - A story of how Policygenius built their Data Warehouse in Google Cloud.

Solving business problems with data - Learn how to understand your customer journey, unlock value from first-party data, and optimize existing cloud infrastructure with Looker solutions.

Getting Started with BigQuery Scripting - Demystifying this powerful but potentially difficult to grasp aspect of BigQuery functionality, one simple step at a time.

Scale your data science workflows with the Vertex AI Workbench notebook executor - Learn how to configure and launch notebook executions with Vertex AI Workbench.

Creating a Machine Learning Model with SQL - Build an ML model using SQL on Google Big Query.

Predict hospital readmission rates with Google Cloud Platform - Examine real-world use cases for predicting 7-day hospital readmission rates utilizing FHIR data stored in BigQuery, along with BigQuery ML, Looker, and Cloud Functions.

Developing and Deploying a Machine Learning Model on Vertex AI using Python - Write training pipelines that will make your MLOps team happy.

How to build an MLOps pipeline for hyperparameter tuning in Vertex AI - Best practices to set up your model and orchestrator for hyperparameter tuning.

Various

Update on Google Cloud’s work with the U.S. Government - A post from Google Cloud CEO.

Surfboard payment app delivers next-generation checkout experiences for merchants of any size - Surfboard Payments provides micro merchants everywhere an accessible, secure solution to start selling in minutes.

A learning journey for members transitioning out of the military - This August, Google Cloud sponsored 50 service members on a journey toward achieving the Associate Cloud Engineer certification.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #284 State of DevOps Report 2021 with Nathen Harvey and Dustin Smith.

Security Podcast - #42 EP42 Missing Diversity Hurts Your Security.

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Have a great week,

Zdenko