This week in Google Cloud Platform — “$1 billion per quarter, two new regions, and WordPress @ Google”
This past week Google has started disclosing its Cloud revenue and “(Google) says its cloud now brings in $1 billion per quarter” (cnbc.com)
At the same time the investments are not slowing down with two new datacenters :
- Google Cloud Platform opens region in the Netherlands (Google blog)
- GCP arrives in Canada with launch of Montréal region (Google blog)
On the security front, here are the weekly updates :
- Finer-grained security using custom roles for Cloud IAM (Google blog)
- Use Forseti to make sure your Google Kubernetes Engine clusters are updated for “Meltdown” and “Spectre” (Google blog)
- 12 best practices for user account, authorization and password management (Google blog)
Assuming security is top of mind for just about everyone, cost is probably a close second which means this detailed post by Romin Irani will come handy for many — “Factors to control and understand your costs” (rominirani.com)
#marketplace: Orbitera and MobileIron team up to make it easier to buy and sell apps in the cloud (Google blog)
From the “BigQuery remains awesome” department :
- How to process weather satellite data in real-time in BigQuery (Google blog)
- Learning to analyze huge BigQuery datasets using Python on Kaggle (medium.com)
- BigQuery performance tips: Searching for text 8x faster — “LOWER() is slower” (medium.com)
If you like to take your .NET App migration to the cloud as an opportunity to embrace cloud-native principles, here’s a post about a white paper and github repo to do just that (Google blog)
If you’re curious about Kubernetes history, its release cadence, SIGs, and a lot more, I’d encourage you to read the well-documented “The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes”, it covers both the software and the project (gravitational.com)
This week’s GCP Podcast (Episode #112) is a conversation with percy.io creator Mike Fotinakis.
From the “Istio in the trenches” department :
- Istio 0.5 is out (github.com)
- Consuming External Web Services (istio.io)
From the “In case you’ve missed it (ICYMI)” department :
- [Beta] Creating an instance template based on an existing instance (GCP documentation)
- [Beta] Scaling Based on Stackdriver Monitoring Metrics (GCP documentation)
- WordPress @ Google (we’re hiring!) (medinathoughts.com)
- Particle — Google Cloud Platform Integration (particle.io)
- Apache Beam lowers barriers to entry for big data processing technologies (oreilly.com)
This week’s pictures are celebrating our two new datacenters in Montréal and in the Netherlands :
That’s it for this week!
-Alexis
