This week in Google Cloud —“Cloud VPC’s seriously unique features and another decision tree”

Alexis MP
Alexis MP
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

You’ve heard it before, Google’s network is fast, high performance, and global. Check out how Cloud VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) can also be sharable, expandable and how one instance span multiple regions — “Reimagining virtual private clouds” for more details.

If you liked the Storage/DB decision tree from a few weeks ago, you’ll enjoy “Choosing the right compute option in GCP: a decision tree” just as well.

Counting uniques faster in BigQuery with HyperLogLog++” discussed how BigQuery uses an implementation of the HyperLogLog algorithm for cardinality estimation when speed is more important than exact count.

How exactly-once processing in Cloud Dataflow is supported by sources and sinks. This is the third and final part of the “Exactly-once processing in Cloud Dataflow” series.

From the “technical coverage for recent GCP announcements” department :

Completing the list is a more generic piece on how committed and involved Google is wrt Open Source for GCP: How Google Turned Open Source Into A Key Differentiator For Its Cloud Platform(forbes.com)

Romin Irani was lucky to attend Google I/O this year and was granted $700 worth of GCP credit. Here’s what he suggests you should do (this also applies to the $300 free trial from cloud.google.com/free) : You have $700 GCP Credit … Now What?(rominirani.com)

From the “ICYMI” department :

From the “Bigtable and BigQuery partners and customers say it best” department :

Decision trees make for great pics of the week :

That’s it for this week!
-Alexis

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A collection of technical articles published or curated by Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocates. The views expressed are those of the authors and don't necessarily reflect those of Google.

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A collection of technical articles published or curated by Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocates. The views expressed are those of the authors and don't necessarily reflect those of Google.

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