Google Cloud Weekly - GCP Newsletter #282
Welcome to issue #282 February 21st, 2022
News
Cloud Functions Official Blog ServerlessSupercharge your event-driven architecture with new Cloud Functions (2nd gen) - The next generation of our Cloud Functions Functions-as-a-Service platform gives you more features, control, performance, scalability and events sources.
Anthos Java Migration Official BlogIntroducing Google Cloud's Tomcat migration tooling - This article describes how practitioners can easily migrate existing Tomcat workloads from virtual machines to Google Cloud’s container platforms.
BigQuery Data Analytics Official BlogStreaming data into BigQuery using Storage Write API - Using BigQuery Storage Write API in Beam pipelines.
Official Blog Timeseries InsightsIntroducing Timeseries Insights API: real-time forecasting and anomaly detection over trillions of events - Google Cloud’s Timeseries Insights API helps businesses act on event-driven data.
Cloud SQL Official BlogCloud SQL launches support for IAM Conditions and Tags - With IAM Conditions and Tags, you have powerful tools to institute finer-grained administrative and connection access control for your databases.
Compute Engine Official Blog SecurityStrengthen protection for your GCE VMs with new FIDO security key support - FIDO security keys can be used to authenticate to Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual machine (VM) instances that use OS Login service.
Google Cloud Platform Official BlogIntroducing a Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool - Introducing the Google Cloud Architecture Diagramming Tool to help you create, visualize and define the vision of your cloud use case and deploy it.
Infrastructure Official BlogReduce your cloud carbon footprint with new Active Assist recommendations - Active Assist recommendations help you Identify and reclaim idle workloads, to lower the carbon footprint of your Google Cloud environment further.
BigQuery Data Analytics Official Blog TeradataSpeed up your Teradata migration with the BigQuery Permission Mapper tool - The BigQuery Permission Mapper tool eases the migration of a customer’s Teradata access rights codes to Google Cloud IAM by automating the permissions mapping process between the two data warehouse solutions.
Official Blog WorkspaceUnleash collaboration with new experiences in Google Workspace - We’re making smart canvas in Google Workspace even more powerful, with auto summaries in Docs, pageless format, and new smart chips.
Google Cloud Platform Official BlogBack by popular demand: Google Cloud products in 4 words or less (2022 edition) - Google Cloud offers lots of products to support a wide variety of use cases. But how do you even know where to start?! Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! We have created a set of resources that makes it easy to familiarize yourself with the Google Cloud ecosystem. You can use these resources to quickly get up to speed on different products and choose those that you're most interested in for a deeper dive into documentation and other available resources.
Event Google Cloud Platform Official BlogAnnouncing Google Cloud 2022 Summits [frequently updated] - Join the Google Cloud Summit series to explore the latest in data, machine learning, collaboration, security, sustainability, and more.
Articles, Tutorials
Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes
Networking Official Blog Service Directory Traffic DirectorStandardize traffic management: Service Directory and Traffic Director - Service Directory and Traffic Director integration for service based traffic management.
Data Analytics Official BlogFree your mainframe data with data-first digitization - By moving mainframe data to Google Cloud, data-first digitization allows you to integrate your mainframe with BigQuery and other industry solutions.
Networking Official BlogChoosing the right network architecture for your Apigee-fueled APIs - Apigee X Hub and Spoke Design uses Cloud VPN and DNS peering to bypass VPC peering transitivity limits.
SecurityGoogle Cybersecurity Action Team Threat Horizons Report #2 Is Out! - Cloud Threat Intelligence February 2022, issue #2.
gRPC Networking Official Blog Traffic DirectorControl access to microservices with gRPC and Traffic Director - Traffic Director now supports client authorization for proxyless gRPC services, so you can centrally control gRPC microservice access.
Networking Official BlogFrom your device to Google Cloud API: Networking basics - Networking touchpoints that occur when you decide to access a Google Cloud API and build in the cloud environment.
Anthos Istio KubernetesGoogle Cloud Anthos Series - Part4 - Part-4: Anthos Service Mesh.
Cloud Load Balancing Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes SecuritySay goodbye to Let’s Encrypt, welcome Google-managed SSL certificates - Setting up Google Managed certificate in GKE service.
App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps
Official Blog ServerlessThink serverless: tips for early-stage startups - Google Cloud tips for early-stage startups, from leveraging serverless to maximizing cloud credits to comparing managed services.
GCP Experience Official BlogVimeo builds a fully responsive video platform on Google Cloud - The video platform Vimeo leverages managed database services from Google Cloud to serve up billions of views around the world each day.
NoSQL Official BlogData modernization with Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas - Why MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud can be considered a modern database, it also provides common use cases and reference architectures for different scenarios.
Cloud Memorystore Official BlogScaling to new heights with Cloud Memorystore and Envoy - Learn how to scale your Google Cloud Memorystore for Redis database for high volume use cases in just a few minutes with the help of Envoy proxy.
Networking ServerlessGCP Serverless VPC Access Explained - An overview of Serverless VPC Access.
Cloud SQL SecuritySecure Google Cloud SQL Instances using Private IP: Gotchas & troubleshooting - This blog post explains different scenarios one must consider while planning to deploy the Cloud SQL instance either in one or across multiple regions using Private IP.
Cloud Functions Eventarc NodeJSSend a Slack message using the Google Cloud Functions (2nd gen) - Using the 2nd generation of the Google Cloud Functions to send a Slack message whenever a VM instance is created triggered by Eventarc.
Cloud CDN Cloud RunCaching a REST API (running on Cloud Run) response using Google Cloud CDN - In this article we will see how to cache a REST API response using Cloud CDN.
CI Gitlab Workload Identity FederationIdentity Federation for Gitlab CI and Google Cloud APIs - Learn how to securely access Google Cloud APIs from Gitlab CI to enable shared runners for your teams.
Cloud Spanner Official BlogCloud Spanner myths busted - The blog talks about the 7 most common myths and elaborates the truth for each of the myths.
Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI
Data Analytics Document AI Official BlogAdd intelligence to your document processing with Google's Enterprise Knowledge Graph - Enterprise Knowledge Graph normalizes and enriches Document AI extracted entities with real world knowledge.
BigQuery Data Analytics Official BlogGoogle data experts share top data practitioner skills needed in 2022 - Top data analytics skills to learn in 2022 as a data practitioner, Google Cloud experts weigh in.
Cloud DataflowStreaming Engine Execution Model - An in-depth overview and implementation details of Dataflow Streaming Engine.
BigQuery Cloud StorageHow we are streaming thousands of rows per second into BigQuery — Part II: Google Storage loading - Reducing costs when loading data from Cloud Storage to BigQuery.
Cloud Data Fusion VPCDeployment Topologies for Data Fusion with Shared VPCs - An overview of various deployment topologies for Data Fusion that an organisation should consider as per their network topologies.
BigQuery Data Analytics Official BlogTo user-friendly SQL with love from BigQuery - BigQuery expands user-friendly SQL with support for new data types, SQL expressions and scripting control statements, table copy DDL and information schema views.
BigQuery Billing GCP ExperienceHow foodpanda reduced 45% of our BigQuery cost with reservations slots - Pros and cons of different BigQuery pricing models offered and sharing tips on how to get started.
BI Engine BigQueryOptimize BigQuery BI Engine Memory usage by Using Materialized Views - Reducing BI Engine memory usage using Materialized BigQuery views.
Airflow BigQueryLearn Airflow and BigQuery by making an ETL for COVID-19 data - An example of data pipeline using Airflow to load data to BigQuery.
BigQuery GISOvercoming large-scale geospatial analysis using Google BigQuery - A look into benchmarking Geospatial data in Google BigQuery.
BigQuery Data AnalyticsGoogle Analytics sequence segments with BigQuery - Recreating sequence segments from Google Analytics in BigQuery.
Official Blog PyTorch Vertex AIOrchestrating PyTorch ML Workflows on Vertex AI Pipelines - In this blog post, we show how to build and orchestrate ML pipelines for training and deploying PyTorch models on Google Cloud Vertex AI using Vertex AI Pipelines.
BigQuery Firebase Machine Learning Official BlogUsing Machine Learning to optimize mobile game experiences - Train ML model based on Google Analytics for Firebase and use in Firebase application.
Serverless Vertex AIA Vertex AI TensorBoard alternative for smaller budgets (Part 2) - Easily and securely share TensorBoards with your colleagues or customers.
Various
Official BlogCentral States CIO Pat Moroney’s parting thoughts on transformation, cloud and feeding the pigeons - CIOs are joining the masses in the Great Resignation. Central States Funds CIO Pat Moroney shares career highs and lows transforming IT.
Slides, Videos, Audio
GCP Podcast - #293 Data Journeys with Bruno Aziza.
Kubernetes Podcast - #168 Rancher Desktop, with Matt Farina.
Security Podcast - #52 EP52 Securing AI with DeepMind CISO.
GCP Life podcast - #7 “Resist the temptation to click ops!” – In this episode we discuss the Kubernetes Documentary, New GCP features, Temporal.io, and the top 10 cloud certs.
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Zdenko
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