This week in Google Cloud — “GKE 1.7 is here, London calling, a Transfer Appliance, and much improved TCP congestion control”

Alexis MP
Alexis MP
Jul 24, 2017 · 4 min read

Google Cloud Platform news over the past couple of weeks included :

  • a new Datacenter in London to run your applications and store your data, all with Google’s reinforced commitment to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance across GCP. Three more regions in the EU are also coming soon!
  • less than a couple of weeks after the release of Kubernetes 1.7, Container Engine now runs this newer version and focuses on better stateful app support, more security features, and networking support for hybrid deployments. Other features include alpha GPU support, auto-repair and auto-upgrade of nodes, new cluster auto-scaling strategies, and an updated admin UI. Check it out!
  • The Transfer Appliance, a rackable high-capacity storage with capacity of up to one-petabyte compressed is now available in beta.
  • In the spirit of giving GCP customer access to the same technology Google uses for its users we give you TCP BBR congestion control, a technology documented in a technical article last December.

Continuing with the “The network is the computer” department :

This week’s Big Data news covers Apache Airflow, Dataflow, BigQuery, but also Genomics and our latest Data Engineering Coursera courses :

From the “Containers, Kubernetes, …” department :

From the “we’re stronger and smarter with partners” department :

From the “customers and users talk best about GCP” department :

From the “what would a weekly recap be without Machine Learning updates?” department :

From the “ICYMI” department :

If you haven’t caught up with the GCP Podcast recently, you probably missed three very fine episodes :

The pic of the week is said to be an example of the dynamic nature of protein target and is taken from the Silicon Therapeutics story above :

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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