Google Cloud Platform News Roundup for August 2015
I hope everyone had a great weekend! Here is a quick snapshot of what you may have missed during the past month. There were five product General Availability announcements, as well as a bunch of new useful articles from Cloud Developer Advocates!
General Availability Announcements
- Google Container Engine — A managed Kubernetes cluster from Google Cloud Platform, backed by a 99.5% SLA.
- Google Compute Engine Autoscaler— Dynamically scale the number of instances in response to load conditions.
- 32-core Virtual Machines on Google Compute Engine— Greg Wilson (@gregsramblings) and I used a 32-core VM to calculate 100 billion digits of Pi, and subsequently, 250 billion digits.
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub— A managed and scalable messaging infrastructure for your system integration needs.
- Google Cloud Dataflow — No more custom Map/Reduce jobs. Write your data processing pipeline using Cloud Dataflow API, and run it in managed environments.
That was a lot of GA announcements for August!
Awesome Articles and Videos
Julia Ferraioli (@juliaferraioli) posted a series of articles on running a Minecraft server on Google Compute Engine with Docker:
- Running a Minecraft server on Google Compute Engine with Docker
- Saving the world: using persistent storage with a containerized Minecraft server
- Minecraft, Docker, Compute Engine: an interlude
Even if you don’t play Minecraft, you can learn a lot about Google Compute Engine and Docker! Follow her to get the series finale.
Felipe Hoffa (@felipehoffa) published a video titled Open data unleashed: The NYC taxi dataset. I live in New York City so it was especially interesting for me to watch! It features hackers dissecting taxi data using BigQuery. One team figured out the location of the highest grossing fire hydrant. I just hope someone figures out how to solve the shift change problem. Felipe loves BigQuery — check out his top posts on Reddit.
New to Google Cloud Platform? Check out Sandeep Dinesh’s (@SandeepDinesh) webinar on Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform. This video is pretty popular — I even saw it playing on the big screens at our Google Cloud Platform community events in Indonesia and Malaysia!
Got a minute? Learn something useful about Google Cloud Platform from Aja Hammerly (@thagomizer_rb), Paul Newson (@newsons_nybbles), and Sandeep Dinesh. They published several one-minute tutorial videos known as the Cloud Minute series. Check it out and save the playlist.
If you work with Go — check out how easy it is to write server-side software with Go and Google App Engine. Learn about tips and tricks and how to set up your environment from Mark Mandel (@Neurotic). It’s an epic post.
Ever wonder what Kubernetes namespaces are and what you can use them for? Ian Lewis (@IanMLewis) explains it all in his article Using Kubernetes to Manage Environments.
Take a look inside Google’s Data Center Network and how we achieved 1 petabit/second of total bisection bandwidth. There is another post with more photos. It’s mind blowing. High Scalability also followed up with even more detail.
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