July — The calm before the month of Awesome!

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July, yet another month that we have crossed off in this year of many ups and downs. While huge events like Cloud Next OnAir are starting to ramp up in the midst of July, we’ll see these events go into full-force from August forwards.

That said, there has been a number of exciting happenings in July, let’s recap the entire month of July 💃

Android Night 2 🔥 — 13th July 2020

If you are an Android Developer, rejoice! We’re back again with another Android themed event by GDG Singapore. This time, we have three very talented Android Developers to share their experiences with us.

Starting the festivities from the kindlings, we have Saurabh Arora, who introduced to us on how we could make our development experience better, with his tips on certain static analysis tools. Off the back from his previous talk on tips in the Android, this is another discussion that you should not miss.

Wonyoung Choi continued the fire burning, blazing us with his knowledge on the ConcatAdapter. While ConcatAdapter was still in alpha, he addresses how this new class can be used, and benefits for doing so.

Last but not least, we have Kurt Renzo Acosta, stoking our curiosities on the Multiplatform programming for Kotlin. He dived into its concepts, and how it can be best utilized for common code for the corresponding applications on different platforms (like Android vs iOS)

Check out the live stream here:

Timeline for the starting points for each speaker:

1. 11:32 — Intro, by Julius Uy, GDG Singapore
2. 15:57 — Scaling your workflows through static analysis tools, by Saurabh Arora
3. 47:52 — Introduction to ConcatAdapter, by Wonyoung Choi
4. 1:14:13 — Maximizing code sharing with Kotlin Multiplatform, by Kurt Renzo Acosta

Webinar #7 — Untold Story of Your Code: Mining Software Development History with Deep Learning — 16th July 2020

On the GDG Cloud Singapore’s end of happenings, we have the 7th installment of the online webinar.

In this session, we covered the content on week 1 for Cloud Next OnAir. The theme was “Industry Insights”, and there were definitely breakout stars of the show at Cloud Next. One such example was Simplify gaming with Cloud, where the highlight was in an interview with Activision Blizzard on the reasons for moving into the cloud with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Continuing the webinar, we have our guest speaker, Dr. Mikhail Filippov, who discussed using deep learning to understand written code. This was an interesting topic, as it was shown to be utilized behind a search engine for searching intent in code repositories.

Catch up on our live stream here:

Timeline for the starting points for each speaker:

1. 7:44 — Introduction
2. 13:24 — Shiny New Stuff in GCP, Human RSS
3. 27:04 — Tips and Tricks, Human RSS
4. 32:07 — Community Content AND The Learning Corner, Human RSS
5. 43:17 — Untold Story of Your Code: Mining Software Development History with Deep Learning, by Mikhail Filippov

Webinar #8 — Highlights from Cloud Next 2020 Digital (Week 1–3) 🙀 — 30th July 2020

Since our schedule for GDG Cloud Singapore’s webinar is for once every two weeks, we definitely can’t miss out on the 8th installment of our webinar in the month of July.

Instead of a guest speaker, we have dedicated this webinar to covering content from week 2 and 3 of Cloud Next OnAir. The themes for these two weeks were “Productivity and Collaboration” and “Infrastructure”.

There was plenty of exciting content that was covered in this webinar. To name a few, proxy-less applications with gRPC, and migration tips for workloads into GCP.

Watch our updates in our live stream here:

Timeline for the starting points for each speaker:

1. 5:22 — Introduction
2. 9:41— Shiny New Stuff in GCP, Human RSS
3. 35:55 — Tips and Tricks, Human RSS
4. 54:07 — Community Content, Human RSS
5. 1:01:22 — The Learning Corner, Human RSS

Upcoming Events

As the title has hinted, August is going to be a heap of fun-filled festivities, and opportunities to bump our skill sets. We have different offerings for both specialists and leaders in the tech industry.

15th August — Full Cycle People Leadership

Kicking off the month of August, GDG Singapore has invited the Director of Engineering at Netflix, Bruce Wang, to share with us his knowledge in leadership. Sign up for this event here

The entire month of August — Cloud Next OnAir

Starting off from the mid of July, we have had 3 weeks of content on GCP from Cloud Next OnAir, culminating in the third week as we kicked into high gear with 52 videos on Infrastructure. In the month of August, the topics covered will be on Security, Data Analytics, Data Management & Databases, and Application Modernization (one theme per week in August). There’s plenty of learning opportunities for everyone.

If you’re interested in the talks on the various topics, do keep an eye out for the sessions here, released every Tuesday at 9 am PDT. If hands-on learning is more your thing, check out the study jam, and Cloud Hero for direct experience of using GCP.

Cloud Next OnAir is understandably confusing to traverse, given that there are so many things going on for that event! Do check out this cheat sheet on an easy to digest schedule that you can follow each week.

GDG Cloud Singapore will also be actively covering the hottest stuff off the backs of Cloud Next OnAir. Make sure you check out our next webinar’s live stream here.

With that, we’re caught up with the happenings in the month of July. In addition to that, August is shaping up to be a very exciting month so far. We hope to see you guys around in our coming events!

Ciao~